68 OBSERVATIONS ON FARINA. 
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Wished. A like scene occurred on the 
two succeeding evenings about the 
same hoox% 
After five days, the brood combs 
were examined ; but no brood, not an 
atom of paste was in them. Thus, 
the worms had died of hunger. 
To prove this more clearly, it was 
necessary to confine other brood to 
the care of the same insects* now 
givingthem abundance .of pollen. This 
being done, they were returned to 
their prison. Next day they resumed 
courage, they consolidated the combs, 
and remained on the brood. The bees 
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crowded to the combs containing the 
farina, small portions of which they 
