FEEDING BEES. 
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 Romande.) 
While such methods succeed in a mild and damp climate, 
like that of France, they are not advisable in the Northern 
part of the United States, unless the bees are wintered in 
cellars (646). 
G15. The prudent Apiarist will regard the feeding of 
bees—the little given by way of encouragement excepted—- 
as an evil to be submitted to only when it cannot be avoided, 
and will much prefer that they should obtain their supplies 
in the manner so beautifully described by him whose inimi- 
table writings furnish us, on almost every subject, with the 
happiest illustrations: 
“ So work the honey-bees, 
Creatures that, by a rule in Nature, teach 
The art of order to a peopled kingdom. 
They have a king and officers of sorts, 
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home, 
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad; 
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings, 
Make boot upon the Summer’s velvet buds; 
Which pillage they, with merry march, bring home 
To the tent royal of their emperor, 
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys 
The singing masons building roofs of golds 
The civil citizens kneading up the honey; 
The poor mechanic porters crowding in 
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate; 
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum, 
Delivering o’er, to executors pale, 
The lazy, yawning drone.” 
SHAKESPEARE’S Henry V, Act I, Scene 8. 
616. All attempts to derive profit from selling cheap 
honey or syrup, fed to bees, have invariably proved unsuc- 
cessful. The notion that they can change all sweets, however 
poor their quality, into honey, on the same principle that 
