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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
some way be kept above. Mr. Simmins has arranged 
this in more feeders than one. “The Amateur” 
(Fig. g8) may explain the rest. It consists of a 
circular, tin box, gin. in diameter^ and 4 in. high. 
Through its centre rises a tube 2\n. wide, and 
covered with perforated tin within and Avithout, to 
give the bees foothold. The bottom is raised, so that 
entrance may be gi\'en from half-a-dozen frames at 
once if desired. Around the central tube is a moA^able 
one of perforated tin, 2 fin. in diameter, and closed 
above by a loose, glass lid. This tube is fixed beneath 
to a AA’ide cone {co, B), also perforated. When the 
tube and attached cone are placed in the external 
case, the space aboA’e is filled Avith loaf sugar (S), and 
Avater (preferably Avarm, as mere solution depresses 
temperature) added in the proportion of half a pint to 
each pound, AAdien the result is obvious. The bees, 
folloAving the direction of the arroAV, gain access to 
the formed syrup betAveen the tAVO tubes. This feeder 
presents a great surface of metal, and needs a Avide 
separation of the bees from their cluster, and so is 
not intended for cool Aveather. When this prevails, 
and for sIoav feeding, over the inner tube (cl) is 
placed a cover, pierced for tAVO lamp Avicks {w, w), 
which, dipping into the syrup, hang doAvn in the central 
tube, even to the very cluster, if desired, and feed by 
capillarity, as indicated at B. These feeders are 
ingenious time-savers, and a great convenience to those 
Avho have no appliances at hand for making syrup in 
the usual manner. 
The diA'ision-board Itself may, by a modification, 
be converted into a feeder. The form I prefer 
