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the bees in converting it into a liquid, not to speak,of the length of time 

 which is taken up in the process of consumption. I must also confess, 

 it appears to me somewhat a work of supererogation, to turn a fluid 

 into a solid, for the purpose of feeding insects who must reconvert it 

 into a fluid before it can be of any possible use to them. It is well, 

 nevertheless, to know, in case of emergency, (as when the bee 

 master must be unavoidably absent,) that a side box filled with barley 

 sugar will save his impoverished hive from all danger of starvation. 



