114. Direttions how to fupply Bees with Food. 
deficient hive, and, laying it on one fide, to pour 
melted honey;into the empty cells, where there 
are few or no bees; and, when the one fide of 
all the combs are properly filled, to turn up 
the other, and fill their empty cells with honey 
alfo. A tea-pot is moft proper for executing 
this plan. In this manner I have fometimes 
poured two pounds of honey into a hive ata 
time. When the hive is again placed on the 
{tool, a little honey will run down from the . 
‘combs upon it; but the entry being clofe fhut 
up, will prevent robbers from fmelling the trea- 
fure, and will keep fuch bees, as may have been 
befmeared with honey during the operation, 
within the hive. The native bees will foon 
not only lick up all the fpilt honey from the 
ftool, but will alfo fuck it off the backs of their: 
befmeared brethren, and lay it up in their re- 
fervoirs, with fo much expedition, that next — 
day not a drop of it will be vifible, either on 
the {tool or on the bodies of the bees. 
Itis not to be doubted, that, in cafes of necef 
ty, bees may be fed and preferved with other | 
articles, befides honey; fuch as fugar, {weet 
wort, treacle and the like: but Iam of opinion, 
that they cannot be fed, either at lefs expence 
er with as ao fafety, with any other thing 
than 
