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3. In winter do not feed at all. 
4. Feed swarms, if unseasonable weather 
immediately follow the act of swarming. 
5, Preserve the Bees of weak stocks, and 
prevent a great deal of the necessity for feed- 
ing, by adding them to those that are rich 
and able to support them. ‘This last is the 
best, and cheapest, and most scientific—nay, 
it is even a profitable method of feeding Bees. 
Karly swarming is necessary, and is of great 
advantage to the watchful apiarian, but not 
to the inattentive and slothful manager. | 
early swarms are judiciously fed, supporte# 
by a natural heat within, they will be greatly 
benefited thereby, and eventually prosper. 
But notwithstanding what has been already 
said, the cottager may probably ask,—How 
ean I feed my Bees without lifting up their 
hive? I again and again request him to ex- 
amine my feeding apparatus attached to my 
Self-protecting Hive, and he will perceive 
that Bees may, be easily fed in this manner, 
if he have but ingenuity to make a proper 
feeder and put it on the top of his hive. But 
