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mind, you will not got one drop of sugar or syrup on the floor or 

 table. Keep your bands clean, and everytbiiig else clean, and 

 let the women folks sec tliat men have common sense; some of 

 them at least. If you should forget yourself, and let the candy 

 boil 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 beard 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." ("A. B. C." page 48.) 



613. The Rev. Mr.Scholz, of Silesia, more than 30 years 

 ago, recommended the following as a substitute for sugar- 

 candy in feeding 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 difficulty 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 suc- 

 cess, 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 along 

 time and no brood is to be raised. 



614. An experiment of De Layens has proved that bees 

 can use water to dissolve sugar (272 bis). The same writer 

 relates 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 

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