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very rich, or thofe that are too poor’ to ftand till next 
fummer without your afliftance. Keep none that weigh | 
not twenty pounds. 
If you have not watering places near, fet a trough of 
wood or ftone in your garden, filled with gravel, and 
kept: al ways moift, for them to drink. : 
Of Feeding of Bees. 
FEEDING Bees is what I have no great opinion of, 
and very feldom practife ; yet it may fometimes be ne- 
ceflary, as when new {warms are in want. Various are 
the methods ufed in feeding of Bees, as well as the ma- 
terials; as fugar, falt, fweet- wort, &¥c. which cannot be 
laid up for future fupply. 
- Honey alone is their natural and proper food ; bad 
when there is a real neceflity to feed any, give them no 
lefs than a pound, or two pounds at once, and repeat it, 
till you have furnifhed them with a fufficient quantity, 
This they will lay up in the cells for future ftore, 
The manner of adminiftring it may be this. Let 
your honey be brought to a due confiftence, or a liquid, 
by water, or {mall beer mixed with it; then pour it into 
a veflel prepared on purpofe, or into an empty comb, a 
Drone-comb: (being ftrongeft) is the beft; and in the 
evening when all the other Bees are quiet, gently raifing 
the hive on one fide, put it under; and the next day 
they will, with the greateft chearfulnefs convey it into 
the magazines. - 
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