FEEDINO. SCT 



cents per pound ; and at the furthest, not more than half of 

 what is fed, can be secured in the comb, since it requires 

 about a pound, to manufacture comb enough to hold a pound 

 of honey, The actual cost of the honey in the cofnb, will 

 therefore be as great as that of the nicest honey. Those 

 who desire to have something very beautiful to the eye, and 

 delicate to the taste, at a season when their bees are not 

 storing up honey from the blossoms, and in situations where 

 the natural supply is of an inferior quality, if they do not re- 

 regard expense, can, by feeding this mixture, place upon their 

 tables, an article which will often be pronounced by the best 

 judges, superior to any thing they ever tasted before. 



I have repeatedly spoken of the great care necessary to 

 guard against bees being tempted to engage in dishonest 

 courses, by getting a taste of forbidden sweets. The expe- 

 rienced Apiarian will fully appreciate the necessity of these 

 cautions, and the inexperienced, if they neglect them, will 

 be taught a lesson that they will not soon forget. Let it be 

 remembered that the bee was intended to gather its sweets 

 from the nectaries of flowers : in the exquisitely beautiful 

 language of him whose inimitable writings supply us on al- 

 most every subject, with the richest thoughts and happies$ 

 illustrations, they were created to 



" Make boot upon the Summer's velvet buds, 

 Which pillage the}' with merry march bring home 

 To the tent royal of their ' empress :' 

 Who, basied in ' her ' majesty, surveys 

 The singing masons, building roofs of gold." — Shakspeare. 



When thus engaged, bees working in harmony with 

 their natural instincts, have little disposition to meddle with 

 property that does not belong to them ; but if their incau- 

 tious owner tempts them with liquid food, especially at times 

 when they can obtain nothing from the blossoms, they be- 



