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the Bees in a variety of ways, and the principal objections to it are the 
following: 1. There is no profit in it. No man gets the quantity of 
honey which he feeds. 2. It prevents the Bees from going abroad to 
gather honey from the fields. 3. If the Bees are fed liberally late in the 
fall and early in the spring, there will be very few empty cells in which 
to rear young Bees. 4. It is deceptive, because a cheap and inferior 
article is sold for one of superior quality. 5. It results, in the process 
of time, in the extinction of the Bees. The feeding of Bees may be 
practised with advantage whenever they are not amply supplied with 
winter stores, a thing which happens to late swarms and to those from 
which large quantities of honey have been taken. For this purpose a 
cheap article may be used to help them through the winter. It may be 
desirable to take fronr the Bees all the white clover honey which can 
be obtained in boxes with a view to supply the Bees with a cheaper 
article. 
