MANAGING BEES. 
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ed on the front of the hive. It should be of 
sufficient depth to lav in broad comb, filled 
with honey. If strained honey without combs 
is used for feeding, a float, perforated with 
many holes, should be laid over the whole of 
the honey in the box, or feeder, so as to pre- 
vent any of the bees from drowning; and at 
the same time, this float should be so thin as 
to enable them to reach the honey. It should 
be made so small that it will settle down as 
fast as the honey is removed by the bees. — 
There should be a tube inserted vertically 
through the float and made fast to it, extend- 
ing upward through the top of the box in 
such a manner as to receive the honey from 
a tunnel and convey the same tlircctly under 
the float. A light of glass should be placed 
in the back side, and a door to close and 
darken it at pleasure. 
Great profits may be made in large apiaries 
by feeding cheap honey in the fall. The 
bees, being compelled to carry up and de- 
posit the cheap honey in the lower apartment 
of the hive, (and they will live on that as 
well as any other,) their owner can compel 
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