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shallow wooden troughs, or vessels filled M-ith floats or 
straw, from which—sheltered from cold winds, and 
warmed hy the genial rays of the sun—they can drink 
without risk of dro^\'Tiin 2 . 
Bees seem to be so fond of salt, that they will alight 
) upon our hands to lick up the saline perspiration. 
, “ During the early part of the breeding season,” says Dr. 
/ Bevan, “till the beginning of May, I keep a constant 
{ supply of salt and water near my Apiary, and find it 
thronged T\dth bees from early morn tiU late in the 
evening. About this period, the quantity they consume 
is considerable, but afterwards they seem indifferent to it. 
The eagerness they evince for it at one period of the 
season, and their indifference at another, may accoimt for 
the opposite opinions entertained respecting it.” 
The Rev. Mr. Weigel, of Silesia, recommends plain 
sug.ar-candy as a substitute for liquid honey. If bees can 
get access to it, without being chilled, they will cluster 
on it, and, when supplied with water, will gradually eat it 
up. Four pounds of candy* will, it is said, sustain a colony 
having scarcely any winter stores. It is cheaper than 
liquid food, and less liable to sour in the cells. 
If the common hives are mvcrted, and sticks of candy 
placed gently between the combs where the bees are 
clustered, they may be easily fed in the coldest weather. 
In iny hives, if the spare honey-board, or cover, is elevated 
on strips of wood, about an inch and a half above the 
I’rames, and the candy laid on them just above the clus¬ 
tered bees, it will be accessible to them in the coldest 
• To make candy for bco-fcod: add water to the sugar, and clai’lfy the syrup 
with eggs; put about a teaspoonful of cream of tartar to about 20 Iba. of sugar, 
and boil until the water is evaporated. To know when it is done, dip your finger 
first Into cold water and then Into the syrup. If what adheres is brittle when 
chewed, it is boiled enough. Pour It into shallow pans, slightly greased, and, when 
cold, break It into pieces of a suitable size. After boiling, btilni, or any other 
. flavor agreeable to bees, may bo put into the syrup. 
