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Subject:
Name that Feeder
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Sid Pullinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Tue, 6 Oct 1998 03:33:48 -0400
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Most hive top feeders are adaptations of the original Miller feeder, dating
back to the last century.  Doctor C C Miller, born 1831 at Ligonier, Pa..  
Obviously a very versatile man.  Started life as a doctor, switched to
music, composing, song writing and finally to beekeeping, becoming a
full-time beekeeper in 1878.  Well known at the time for his writings and 
his book "Year anong the Bees.                                          Sid
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