MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 141 
‘ollow, and more particularly if those days 
should happen to be rainy also, by feeding 
such a swarm you will assist your impove- 
rished laborers, not only with necessary food 
but with materials and treasure which, un- 
fortunately for them, they cannot at such an 
unfavorable juncture get abroad to collect 
elsewhere. 
Different apiarians have adopted and re- 
commended difierent ways of feeding Bees, 
none of which, in my opinion, possess any 
great merit. In order, therefore, to improve 
this part of Bee management, my endeavors 
have been directed to the contrivance and 
construction of a feeding department, which 
I put on the top of my hive in so convenient 
a manner, that i can feed my Bees, at any 
time when feeding is required, without being 
molested by a single Bee, in spring, in au- 
turn, or in winter, without disturbing the 
position of the hive, and without changing 
its interior temperature, which temperature 
cannot be kept equable and comfortable, 
when a hiveis frequently lifted up from its 
