Of the Feeding of *Bm. c. 8. 
Jfkewife. But alwaies when it waxeth darke, and the Bees 
are all in j barre vp thedoore : and let them not out till the 
next euening,when other Bees are quiet. Or if you doe it in 
the morning, be fure alfo to takeout the Combe, whether he 
; beridorho. And Hill leaue the Hiueclofe, with a narrow 
patfage. „ . ru 
If your poore Bees fliould not be thus defended from Careleflh fading 
■grangers, the feeding of them would proue a ftaruing of 
them. For the Borderers fmelling the bootie will be fure to 
haue part of it, if they can come at it ; and when that is done r 
they will fetvpon the ether, and fo fpoile all ras often it fal» 
lethout through this carelefnelTe. Which caufeth fome to 
condemne all feeding of Bees, as painfull and fruitldle : fay- 
ing, If you feed them nor, they can but die : and fo will they 
doe when you haue beftowed your labour and coft, Butthis 
isdifproued by experience : for thofe, which being fit to be 
fed v. are thus fed, do feldome mifearrie. That fummer they ^ 
prouide fufficiently for winter, and thenext they are as likc^ 
ly to fwarme and be fat as an other. 1? ; 
You may alfo feed your poore fwarmes together, jf if you 'PMIy feeding. 
haue no neighbour-Bees to beguile them) by fetttng any re- 
fufe-honie or leanings abroad in your Garden, hauinglirft 
‘barred vp thofe that need it not. This feeding-<Hony,as that 
which as ftolne, when they haue firft taken their refc&ion, 
they conuey into their void Cells : which, becaufe they can- 
not now fhut them vp, as before Virgo, forwantof wtLX~,v. F.c.6.n. if/. 
they doe but halfe-fill. And therefore they firft fpend of this 
late gotten honyj referring that, which was more fafeJy laid 
*vp,vntothe!aft. 14. 
Iris good to feed Bees before theyneed : ( thattheymay Thtfirfttimiof 
feue their ltore,which they haue (Ijuc vp in their Cells, vntill 
the fpring) namely, in the later part of Fir go , when the — —/Z 
Combes are taken,^. or in Librafcot thofe that haue fpent 
J their owne (lore, and hau&little.or nothing leaft in the end 
I ofWinter,are fo difeouraged and fo feeble with falling ; that 
knowing theirthin'bodies canbeareout'nocold,theywilnot 
come abroad, but when they are fed : vnleflfe the weather ba 
exceeding warme and calme : and the more they keepe in, the 
weaker 
