138 / - PREATISE ON THE 
CHAPTER XXL 
BEE FEEDING. 
NEGLECTED generally, as is the manage- 
ment of Bees by their possessors, there is no 
part of it less attended to, when performed at 
all, than that of feeding. The Bee-master 
commonly takes up, as he terms it, his best 
hives for the sake of the treasures they con- 
tain, or are supposed to contain. "This is 
destroying Bees because they are rich. He 
also takes up the lightest and poorest, (of 
course, the late swarms and those that are 
the least likely to live through the winter,) 
because ifhe get from one of these but two 
or three pounds of honey, though he seldom 
gets so much, and afew ounces of wax, he 
thinks that that is all clear gain, and if he 
get neither honey nor wax, he at any rate 
gets rid of the expense and trouble of feeding 
his good-for-nothing swarms, which in his 
opinion, however fed would never come to 
