168 DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 



the hive. An ordinary family of bees will frequently remove a pint of 

 the feed in an hour, and usually from one to two quarts during a night ; 

 and it does not retard them in the least from gathering from the field 

 on the following day. 



The feed niay be made of poor, unmerchantable honey, or honey and 

 sugar mixed, and prepared with water. Southern honey also answers 

 a very good purpose for feeding, merely to sustain the bees through the 

 winter ; or, when cleansed and mixed with crushed sugar, makes a very 

 good article for the table, after being worked over and stored in the 

 combs by the bees. They also construct combs from the feed, as white 

 and beautiful as any other. For feeding receipts see ante, page 285. 



