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Beekeeping 
Slow feeding to prevent robbing is sometimes desirable 
during extracting or other manipulations or while rearing 
queens. A thin syrup of one part sugar to nine of water is 
used, being fed in large feeders in the open. 
Fig. 105. — Division board 
(Doolittle) feeder. 
Fig. 106. — Alexander feeder in 
collar under hive-body. 
Feeders. 
There are numerous types of feeders, used for different 
purposes. The division board feeder (Fig. 105) is hung in 
the hive like a frame. It may be filled without being re- 
Fio. 107. — “ Pepper-box” 
feeder. 
Flo. 10S. — Pan in super arranged 
for feeding. 
