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would otherwiie be drowned in the Plates, and the 
Honey unmixed with Water would be too thick to 
carry into the Combs, ! un 
As the feeding of Bees is abfolutely neceflary to 
the Prefervation of the Stocks, fo it mutt be manag- 
ed with Prudence and Care according to their’Cir- 
cumftances; if they be over-ted, they grow lazy, 
and if fed at a wrongtime, it is of noufe to them 3 
the true time is in September, and from the ‘latter 
End of March tothe middle of Apri] ; and even this 
mutt be governed, by the Seafon: If the Spring be 
early and dry, they will fcarce want Help, but if o- 
therwife the Hive being full of young Brood at that 
Seafon, Care muft be taken of them in order to have 
early Swarms; and if the Stock be weak and poor 
in Autumn, they will come to nothing without feed- 
ing, and even tho’ a weak Stock fhould outlive the 
Winter, they feldom or never come to good, which 
Dhave frequently experienced, but efpecially inthe 
following Inftance. | | vomodd 
»» A Gentleman of my Acquaintance, whois fond 
of Bees, obferved one Morning in Apré/, about a 
Quart of Bees lying in a Clufter at the Foot of the 
Stool, upon:raifing the Hive he found it quite'de- 
ferted, and many dead upon the Stool; imagining 
they wanted: Pood, he caufed:fome Honey: and — 
warm Water tobe mixed, with which he filled 
fome of the Combs in the Hive: . Upon examining 
the Clufter,, he-obferved one Bee more beautiful 
than the reit; fhe -had loftione of her Wings : Ima- 
gining this to-be the Queen-Bee, he returned her in- 
to the Hive, upon which the reft {pread themfelves 
about the Place, fome of thefe he put into the‘Hive, 
and in halfan Hour they all followed. They ‘ftay- 
din the Hive, were fed plentifully, and wrought 
-briskly : However they made little of it, and came 
Be-nothingys<).¢9 dav) vileiowyts. tal oo. Say 1303 
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