Diredions bow to Supply Bees with Food. 115 
than their own natural food. . To give them 
any other fubftitute, would occafion as much 
expence, and a great deal of more trouble, efpe- 
cially when the hives are well filled with inha- 
bitants : and I dare venture to fay, that as fuch 
methods have never yet been much adopted, fo, 
if ever they fhould, they will not turn out to 
the proprietors advantage, or become of general 
ufe, in the prefervation of bees. But it mutt 
be owned, that, if no honey can be obtained to 
feed bees with, in {pring, fome of the above 
fubftitutes will fupply the deficiency tolerably 
well. In fuch a cafe, let x Ib. of brown fugar 
be mixed with half a gill, (or half a quartern) 
of {mall beer, and let a table fpoonful at a time 
be placed before the entry to the hive, as above 
recommended in the third method. Let this 
be repeated daily as long as is neceflary, and 
the hive will be preferved from famine, and 
will in all probability do well; but when a 
hive is light in September, it ought to be fup- 
plied with nothing but honey. 
ae: CH AP. 
