greedily, until they could obtain the pollen from blos- 
soms of the willow and elm. But rye meal is prefera- 
ble. 
During cloudy, cold and windy weather it is fre- 
quently impossible to feed bees with dry meal in 
troughs ; At such times we supply our bees in their 
hive with dry meal or flour, through our Combined 
Feeder and Hive Ventilator, (prescribed in the back 
pages of this book) ; to use it, enlarge the holes in the 
screw cap to about one-eighth inch diameter, put in the 
meal loosely and place the feeder over the cluster of 
bees. 
HONEY. 
Honey is gathered by the bees from flowers, blos- 
soms of trees, and other sweets, of which the honey- 
dew in some seasons yields a large amount. Two spe- 
cies of honey-dew have been discovered, of which one 
is merely an exudation from the leaves of trees, espec- 
ially the oak, and the other a discharge from the bodies 
of plant lice. 
Honey should be stored in a box, glass or other con- 
venient vessel, separate from the main hive or breeding 
apartment, so that the honey may be free of bee-bread 
or brood, or extracted with the newly invented 
