. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Entered at the PostofBce, Fort Pierce, Fla., as second-class mail matter. Vol. XVII. OCTOBER, 1907. No. 10. FEEDERS AND FEEDING. C. W. MILLER. WHERE WE wish to feed a colony a large amount at once the best thing I know of is the one-quart glass fruit or honey jar, arranged on the atmospheric prin- ciple. Get some thrown-away tin to- mato cans and cut off a piece from the unopened end about one-half inch deep. Place these on the top of the brood frames over the cluster of bees and set your jars of honey in them, open mouth down, after putting a sma
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Entered at the PostofBce, Fort Pierce, Fla., as second-class mail matter. Vol. XVII. OCTOBER, 1907. No. 10. FEEDERS AND FEEDING. C. W. MILLER. WHERE WE wish to feed a colony a large amount at once the best thing I know of is the one-quart glass fruit or honey jar, arranged on the atmospheric prin- ciple. Get some thrown-away tin to- mato cans and cut off a piece from the unopened end about one-half inch deep. Place these on the top of the brood frames over the cluster of bees and set your jars of honey in them, open mouth down, after putting a small amount of excelsior or aspara- gus tops or fine grass under the mouths of the jars. Put an empty hive body or upper story on the hive, of course, in which to arrange the jars. If you have no empty stories use any other boxes which can be inverted and fitted to the hives. Or, a blanket can be thrown over the jars and a cord tied around the hanging edges of the blanket. Better arrange to give the feed thus during the night. Four quart jars will feed a colony in two nights. • We nearly always have jars and they are always ready for business while other feeders require critical examination and materials and often mechanical skill to get them in condition to be used'because they are made of wood and consequently are liable to change during the sum- mer between the feeding seasons. For giving the colonies their winter store, a feeder of large capacity is necessary, but for stimulating the colonies in the spring it requires a feeder of small capacity. A large feeder cannot be arranged so well for convenience in filling nor for con- serving the warmth of the bees as a small one. Feeders do not cost so much but that we can afford two kinds. It is a great advantage from the standpoint of labor and also great satisfaction to the person who per- forms the labor. If we have a hun- dred colonies there is seldom more than a third of them which lack stores in the fall and for that a dozen
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