FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



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side wall, which lacks enough of coming to the top so 

 that the bees can come up over it and go down into the 

 feed. 



fig. 34. — Part of Home Apiary (from N'orthwest), 



IMPROVED MILLER FEEDER. 



The improved Miller feeder of the catalogs, instead 

 of being all in one has two parts, and the bees go up 

 through the middle. I thought it was an important im- 

 provement to allow the bees to go up the middle instead 

 of up the two sides, because the heat ought to be greater 

 at the middle. After a thorough trial of the two, side 

 by side, I am obliged to admit that the improvement is 

 one in theory only, and that the bees go up the sides 

 whenever they will go up the middle, and it seems a little 

 better to have the feed all in one dish. 



If it were not for the expense of keeping two sets of 

 feeders, I should like to keep a set of division-board 

 feeders, for there may come times when it is cool and 



