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DOMESTIC ANIMALS. 
the hive. An ordinary family of bees will frequently remove a pint of 
the feed in an hour, and usually from one to two quarts during a night ; 
and it does not retard them in the least from gathering from the field 
on the following day. 
The feed may be made of poor, unmerchantable honey, or honey and 
sugar mixed, and prepared with water. Southern honey also answers 
a very good purpose for feeding, merely to sustain the bees through the 
winter ; or, when cleansed and mixed with crushed sugar, makes a very 
good article for the table, after being worked over and stored in the 
combs by the bees. They also construct combs from the feed, as white 
and beautiful as any other. For feeding receipts see ante, page 285. 
