. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. IOC THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [February 1, 1882. show our amateur readers how to deal with it. A reverend correspondent from Co. Carlow, Ireland, asks, among other matters, ' "What is the space behind the frames for ?' and in reply we say,—-For any purpose for which such sjiacc may be useful. In spring or autumn it may be used as a place for feeding.; Raise the back dummy a. quarter of an inch or little more, and put in the food, in an)r of the simple forms that commend themselves to cottagers, but which when outside or near the entran
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. IOC THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [February 1, 1882. show our amateur readers how to deal with it. A reverend correspondent from Co. Carlow, Ireland, asks, among other matters, ' "What is the space behind the frames for ?' and in reply we say,—-For any purpose for which such sjiacc may be useful. In spring or autumn it may be used as a place for feeding.; Raise the back dummy a. quarter of an inch or little more, and put in the food, in an)r of the simple forms that commend themselves to cottagers, but which when outside or near the entrance of a hive but too often cause robbing. Odd pieces of bleeding comb may be put there to be cleaned, combs tilled with syrup may be placed there, or barley sugar, or sugar cake, or loaf sugar moistened; or, if a system of regulated feeding be determined on, it will be very easy to adapt any of the feeders in use, so that the bees can get under the food as if it were on the top of the hive, and in this case will be less likely to fill up the brood-nest with liquid food. To do this, a strip of wood of the length of the hive from side to side, about three-fourths of an inch thick, and about half-an-inch wider than the feeding-bottle, will be required. Through the centre of this a hole should be made, large enough for a feeding-plate of vulcanite, or metal, which should be fixed as in ordinary. The wood should now be cut away from one side of the hole so that when the strip lies with the feeding-plate uppermost, the bees can get into the hole, and it should then be laid on the floor-board of the hive with the last-named hole against the dummy, when, if the dummy * In the woodcut which we give above, the hive is shown with its front corner transparent, so that anyone may see at a glance how easy of arrangement are all its parts. As shown, it has our physic-bottle feeder dummy in it, which is far from being a bad thing, and anyone can make \ \ be raised about half-an-inch the
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