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sary liquids. If so little covering is placed above the 

 non-porous cloth that condensation takes place, the sugar 

 is used up too rapidly and the queen crowdfed out ; 

 especially as the temperature is so reduced that the 

 brood nest cannot be extended. 



The feeders (Fig 06) are placed as an ordinary frame at 

 the outside of the brood nest and the bees allowed only 

 so many combs that they are crowded into them. 



Another very serviceable frame feeder I have in use 

 holds 9 or 10 lbs., and is 3 inches across inside. The 

 bottom is simply a sheet of finely perforated tin placed in 

 an arched form, so that the bees may cluster under and 

 appropriate the sugar through the perforations. 



Syrup Feeders. 



If a stock happens to be very short of stores in spring, 

 1 find it best to give a feed of syrup to put the bees in 

 good heart, and then follow with the dry sugar. In 

 autumn, when surplus receptacles are removed, it may be 

 too early to finish off feeding all at once, and it is well to 

 give ten or fifteen pounds of syrup immediately and finish 

 gradually with a ten-pound dry feeder. This is, of course, 

 where all the honey has been placed above, but where any 

 have considerable stores on hand but not enough to winter, 

 the balance must be made up rapidly with syrup not later 

 than the end of September ; when , it is necessary that 

 the coipbs should be almost solid. 



Simmint>' Syrup Frame Feeder 



(Fig 54) holds about twelve pounds; is 4^ inches wide, 

 and otherwise of the " standard " frame dimensions. The 

 joints are all tongued and well put together that no leakage 

 may occur, though it is advisable to paint the whole 

 inside to prevent saturation. There is a slot along the 



