FALL FEEDING. 819 
Before the first heavy frosts all feeding 
required for wintering bees should be 
carefully attended to. 
609. Feeders of all descriptions are 
made and sold.* To feed our bees we have 
used for years a fruit can, (fig. 102) cov- 
ered with cloth and inverted over the hive. 
It costs nothing and can be found in every Fig. 102. 
house. We now use Hill’s Feeder (fig. 102 CAN FEEDER. 
bis), in which the cloth is replaced by a perforated cover. 
Fig. 102 bis. 
HILL’3 BEE-FEEDER. 
The bees can then get their food, without being chilled 
even in cold weather, and they promptly store it away in 
the combs, for later use. 
It is desirable to get through with Fall feeding as rapidly 
as possible,f as the bees are soexcited by it that they con- 
sume more food than they otherwise would. In feeding a 
large amount for Winter supply, we have given as many 
as five quart-cans to one colony at one time. Wooden 
feeders in the shape of troughs, as made by Root, Shuck, 
and Heddon, have the advantage over the cans of not need- 
ing removal to be refilled, but they are not so well in reach 
of the cluster. 
® Columella recommended wool, soaked In honey, for feeding bees. When 
the weather is not too cold, a saucer, bowl, trough, or vessel of any kind, filled 
with straw. makes a convenient feeder. 
+ Feeding colonies put late in the Fall into empty hives, unless combs cap 
be given to them, will seldom pay expenses. 
