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forget yourself, and let the candy bail over on the stove, it 

 would be very apt to get on the floor, and then you would be 

 very likely to ' get your foot in it, ' and before you got through, 

 you might wish you had never heard of bees or candy either; 

 and your wife, if she did not say so, might wish she had never 

 heard of anything that brought a man into the kitchen. I 

 have had a little experience in the line of feet sticking to the 

 floor and snapping at every step you take, and with door knobs 

 sticking to the fingers, but it was in the honey house." 



613. The Rev. Mr. Scholz, of Silesia, years ago, recom- 

 mended the following as a substitute for sugar-candy in feed- 

 ing bees: 



"Take one pint of honey and four pounds of pounded lump- 

 sugar; heat the honey, without adding water, and mix it with 

 the sugar, working it together to a stiff doughy mass. When 

 thus thoroughly incorporated, cut it into slices, or form it into 

 cakes or lumps, and wrap them in a piece of coarse linen and 

 place them in the frames. Thin slices, enclosed in linen, may 

 be pushed down between the combs. The plasticity of the 

 mass enables the Apiarist to apply the food in any manner he 

 may desire. The bees have less dilEoulty in appropriating this 

 kind of food than where candy is used, and there is no waste." 



This preparation has been used of late years with success, 

 as food in mailing and shipping bees, under the name of 

 "Good's candy." 



Thick sugar-syrup and candy are undoubtedly the best bee- 

 food, especially when the bees are to be confined a long time 

 and no brood is to be raised. 



614. An experiment of De Layens has proved that bees 

 can use water to dissolve sugar (273). The same writer re- 

 lates how a French bee-keeper, Mr. Beuzelin, feeds his bees 

 in Winter: 



"He saws into slices a large loaf of lump-sugar, and places 

 these slices upon the frames under a cloth. Another bee-keeper 

 told me several years ago of having saved colonies in straw 

 hives by simply suspending in them, with wires, lumps of sugar 

 weighing several pounds." — (Bulletin de la Suisse Komande.) 



