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I have recommended feeding Bees with Honey in 
the manner directed, becaufe upon Experience I can 
affirm it the beit. Iam not ignorant’that others re- 
commend pouring the Honey into old Combs, or 
fliding, it into, the Hive in little. Troughs made on 
purpofe; but thefe I know to: be more hazardous, 
and. I think not lefs troublefome: «The Antients re+ 
commended feeding them with Raifins, bruifed Figs, 
and,other fweet Pruits dried. «Pliny in particular 
recommends. Hen’s: Flefh, tho’ ‘itis notorious, Pieth 
is never,caten by them)and:is'clear contrary to their 
Nature. Some Gentlemen of my ‘Acquaintance re= 
commend fweet: Wort, Sugar and Water,! and fuch 
kind of Subftances:: But I think they muft be under- 
ftood:.only inva Deficiency of Honey, for that: is 
beyond doubt: their: natural Food :>: For tho’ they 
wilbfeed upon all:kind of {weet Things, yet they 
can neither extract Honey from them, nor fill their 
Combs out of them, which they conftantly dovwith 
Honcy and Water, as here directed.) And when 
they are ftrong and vigorous, they will rather ga- 
ther Honey abroad: than feed: upon. any of thofe fo- 
reign Subftances. | ahi | ui) 
Tho? I have:mentioned ‘two principal Times of 
feeding the Bees, -yet 1 muft take’ Notice,’ that’the 
Spring:is the ‘Lime chiefly to be regarded: For if 
the Weather be wetand cold, andthe Stock full of 
Brood, they. will be in Danger of perifhing, to'the 
utter,Damage: of. the Colony, whereas, fuch Hives 
as. are fo weak»asi to. require Food in Autumn) are 
feldom worth spreferving, as I:hinted’before, and 
therefore fhould; be taken in Autumn: bt of5.02 
For-this Purpofe:in the latter Endvof Auga/t, vor 
the beginning of September, the: Swarms fhould be 
all furveyed, and fuch:as are foundynot to be compe~ 
tently'fupplied, fhould be taken, and if in’ examin- 
ing the old Stocks, efpecially fuch as have {warmed 
Ces twice, 
