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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
low as to make the death of not a few certain. One 
of the signs of water dearth is the collection of par- 
ticles of candied honey on the floor-board. The nurses 
uncap the cells in succession, and extract from each 
the most liquid portions, dropping, from time to time, 
the solidified particles upon the floor beneath. .When 
nothing remains but that which is candied, they, ac- 
cording to a German experimenter, attack the unsealed 
larvae, and devour the eggs, if any are still unhatched. 
1 have never seen this extreme condition, but in the 
Fig. 100.— Bee-fountains. 
A, Earthenware Fountain— it’c, Water-chamber ; ds. Drinking-stage. B, Bottle 
Fountain, or Open-air Feeder — b, Board ; (j, Grooves. 
absence of liquid honey such results are to be anti- 
cipated. American cloth, placed over the tops of the 
frames, has been previously referred to, its service 
depending upon its reduction of evaporation, by 
stopping all upward ventilation, as much as upon 
the water which actually condenses upon it. The 
most effectual remedy, in weather which forbids the 
bees flying, is to give a comb the cells of which have 
been filled, by a syringe, with very thin, warm syrup, 
