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pleasant. I arranged for putting on each hive boxes 

 to contain sixty pounds of comb-honey. 



Feeders were prepared by making shallow troughs 



two inches wide, one and a-quarter inches deep, and 



a half-inch shorter than the inside width of a frame 



for comb. One of these was set on the bottom bar 



of a frame and fastened by driving small nails into 



its ends from the sides of the frame. One end of 



this trough was placed close against the side bar on 



one side, which made it lack one-half an inch of 



extending to the side bar on the other side. A 



quarter of an inch above this trough another was 



fastened in the same way, except that its end was 



brought close to the side bar on the opposite side 



from the first one, and thus an open space of half 



an inch was left for pouring honey into the trough 



beneath it. So one trough was put above another 



until the frame was filled, making seven in the 



frame. Each of the troughs, if full, held about one 



pound of honey, so that seven pounds could be fed 



at once. That no bees might fall into the feeders, 



and be drowned, a very thin piece of wood, such as 



is used for the backs of picture-frames, was laid into 



each trough. This, being slightly smaller than the 



trough, would rise and fall in it, and give the bees a 



secure footing. 



Having the feeders all ready, and the boxes for 

 sixty pounds of honey per hive all prepared on 



