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bring it toa proper Confiftency, they 
will lay up in their Combs for their 
Witter Store. I ‘have many Times 
tried this Method, and my Bees ‘have 
perifhed with Hunger, with a good 
‘deal of this Honey remaining in their 
‘Combs. This, I think, can no way 
be accounted for, unlefs we fuppofe, 
that ‘the Honey thus thinned with 
- ‘Water, will not keep all Winter in 
‘the open Cells; for the Bees never 
~feal-it up, as they do the reft of their 
Honey ; ; or elfe, ‘that the crude Wax, 
“commonly | called Bee-Bread, with 
‘which every Hive is ftored, is as ne- | 
*ceflary to their Subfiftence as Honey, 
and that, when this is all fpent, Honey 
alone will. not on them from wages 
ing. 
leaps if your’Bees are in the Boxes I 
have defcribed, ‘you have an eafy and 
effe€tual Method, of preferving Part — 
at leaft of your weak Colonies : For 
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