To construct the feeder,[3] get a tin-worker to make you a tin dish, with perpendicular sides, nine inches square inside, three inches deep, _without a bottom_. Around the lower edge turn the tin out about one half inch all round, for the dish to rest on when placed on the hive for feeding the bees. Around the top of this dish put a stout wire to keep it in shape Get another tin dish made 8 by 8½ inches square inside, two and one-half inches deep, with a bottom. Place the smaller dish inside the larger one, the bottom of the inner dish _even and level with the lower edge of the outer dish_, which brings the top of the under dish one-half inch lower than the upper edge of the outer dish; then when the outer dish is covered, (as it will be in feeding,) there will be a halt inch space between the cover over the outer dish, and the top of the inner dish. [Footnote 3: With the aid of the engraving, there can be no mistake in constructing the feeder, particularly as its position on the hive is shown under head of Construction of Controllable Hive, Chapter XVIII.] Place one of the shorter sides of the inner dish against the inside of the outer dish, in such a position that there will be a half inch space all round between the outer and inner dish, except at the side where you fasten them together; across this one side join them firmly together with solder; at the bottom near the opposite end solder brass or tin about one inch wide, across the half-inch space from the bottom of the inner dish to the edge of the outer dish, to hold the dishes firmly in place. Near the upper edge of the outer dish solder an some strips of lead about one inch long, by one-half inch wide, to turn down over the corner when put on, to hold it in place. Now get out two pieces of half-inch board, eight inches long, and two and one-half inches wide; with a thick saw, cut channels crosswise of the pieces, three-eighths of an inch apart and one-fourth inch deep, the whole length of the pieces, being careful to run your saw _square across the piece every time_. Next get out pieces to correspond with the number of channels, eight inches long, two and one-half inches wide, one-eighth inch thick, (sawed out so the sides will be rough, to enable the bees the better to hold fast to them, when taking feed). These pieces are to stand edgewise in the inner dish. With a sharp knife bring the ends of the pieces to a thin edge, so they will easily slip into the channels in the half inch pieces. Put the pieces with the channels, one across each end of the inner dish, the channels of each facing the inside of the dish, then slip the ends of your pieces that are one-eighth thick down through the channels, to the bottom of the inner dish. Before you put them down into the dish, cut out a small notch, in what will be the lower end of each piece after it is put down into the dish, so the food when poured in will flow to all parts of the feeder. The pieces or