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it should be heated and skimmed to remove the impu- 
rities. If honey cannot be obtained for feeding, make 
a syrup. This is the best substitute for honey, to feed 
bees, but it should only be used sparingly in fall and 
winter ; if too much of it is stored in the combs, it 
will sometimes sour or granulate, and become worse 
than useless to the bees. If a swarm is apparently dead 
from starvation, they are frequently revived by sprink- 
ling them with sugar-water or diluted honey, slightly 
warmed, and then letting the hive stand in a warm 
room for a few hours. Plain white candy is frequently 
used as bee food, but as they cannot subsist on that 
alone, it should be given before their honey is quite 
consumed, and it will greatly lengthen out their stores. 
It may be fed by laying it across the frames or combs, 
or by pushing it down between them. Contract the 
entrance when feeding to guard against robbers. 
Water is indispensable to bees, when raising brood 
or building comb, and every bee-keeper should see that 
his bees can get it without going far for it ; to bees, 
lime is honey , and to the bee-keeper, honey is money. 
Miny apiaries are not possessed of running water. In 
■ uch a case, I would recommend that a trough, about 
six feet long, eight or ten inches wide and eight inches 
deep, be made of a log, and filled with stones about as 
large as a hen’s egg. Fill the trough daily with water, 
or set a barrel filled with water on one end of it, and 
let it trickle into the trough, thus continually renewing 
