FEEDING AND FEEDERS 
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THE DOOLITTLE DIVISION-BOARD FEEDER. 
For cool-weather feeding, or fall or win¬ 
ter feeding, the friction-top feeder and the 
Doolittle are superior to those previously 
mentioned. 
The Doolittle has the same outside di¬ 
mensions as an ordinary brood-frame, but 
is two inches wide. It will hold about 6 
pounds of syrup, and usually about four 
feederfuls will supply a colony with 
enough stores for winter, provided the 
syrup is made two and one-half to one as 
already described. It is the author’s prac¬ 
tice to use the Doolittle feeder during cool 
weather or in the fall, and fill it with warm 
syrup. It may be used as a dummy or a 
division-board. 
THE MILLER FEEDER. 
When one desires to feed 20 to 25 lbs. of 
syrup at a time, all in one feed, the Miller 
feeder is the best of anything. It is a little 
less in dimensions than the inside of an 
ordinary super to a hive, and is always 
used is connection with a super or upper 
brood-chamber. For late feeding, where 
Miller feeder. 
one desires to do the work all up at one 
time, he can feed with this feeder 25 lbs. 
of thick syrup. If the weather is cool and 
the syrup hot when poured in, the bees 
will take it down in a single night. The 
feeder can then be transferred to some 
other hive. 
The peculiar merit of this feeder is the 
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fact that the entrance to it is "directly over 
the center of the brood-nest. Bees can rise 
up thru the space E shown in the sectional 
drawing, follow the direction of the ar¬ 
rows, and reach the syrup. The syrup in 
the compartments B B will rise to a cor¬ 
responding level in the two outside pass¬ 
ages under A. 
FEEDING WITHOUT A FEEDER TO PREVENT 
STARVATION. 
If one has been so careless as to allow 
his colonies to reach the point of starva¬ 
tion, and has no feeders on hand, he may 
feed thick syrup or honey known to be free 
from disease by placing a brick under th^ 
front of the hive in order to give the hive a 
backward tilt, and then pouring the feed 
over the tops of the frames at the back of 
the hive. Care should be taken not to cause 
robbing by giving a colony so much feed 
that it will run out at the entrance or out 
between the hive and bottom-board in case 
the bottom-board is not tight. 
FEEDING TO STIMULATE BROOD- 
REARING. 
As previously intimated, feeding to 
stimulate brood-rearing is a very different 
proposition from feeding to supply the 
bees with the necessary winter stores. In 
the case of the former, it is desired to get 
a large force of bees (not stores) for the 
approaching harvest or the approaching 
winter, the method of procedure being the 
same in either case. To stimulate brood¬ 
rearing, approximately half a pint of 
syrup daily should be fed; but if that 
amount be given in an ordinary open feed¬ 
er, such as the Simplicity, Doolittle, or 
Alexander, the bees will take it all up in 
about as hour’s time. The result, if the 
syrup is given in the morning or during 
even the middle hours of the day, is to 
excite the colony unduly. Bees will rush 
out into the open air to ascertain where the 
sudden supply of food may be obtained. 
If a whole apiary is fed in this way, there 
is a general uproar of excitement, often 
followed by robbing of some of the weaker 
