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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
the practical apiarian. Many years since, I endea- 
voured to superadd some means of regulation, and 
devised a stage which has been the parent of the 
large number of rotating feeders now in use. Firstly^ 
I displaced perforated zinc by vulcanite plate, because 
the latter is at once a substance not affected chemi- 
cally by any description of food, and a splendid non- 
conductor of heat. It can be, moreover, easily cut to 
shape in a warm room. I give the original form, 
which I think, in some respects, is still superior to 
every other, since its cost is nominal, it can be 
Fig. 96.— Cheshire Feeding-stage and Vulcanite Plate, (Scale, ^). 
A, Food Cut Off— c. Centre Screw ; fh. Feed-hole ; /i. Outlying Holes ; st. Stop ; 
s. Screw to meet Stop. B, Food at Half Supply— Letterings as before. 
worked with any wide-necked bottle, large or small, 
is incapable of getting out of order, can be cleansed 
or absolutely disinfected most readily, and admits 
of every gradation between the slowest and very 
rapid feeding, as the holes in the circular arrange- 
ment can be increased in number as may be desired. 
The vulcanite plate, on its wooden block, is repre- 
sented at A and B, Fig. g6. The curve cu has for 
its centre the screw, the hole for which, like all 
the others, is most conveniently made by a redhot 
