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very rich, or thofe that are tco poor to ftand till next 
fummer without your afliftance. Keep none that weigh 
not twenty pounds. “are 
If you have not watering places near, fet a trough of 
wood or ftone in your garden, filled with gravel, and 
kept al ways moift, for them to drink. 
Of Feeding of Bees, 
FEEDING Bees is what I have no great opinion of, 
and very feldom practife ; yet it may fometimes be ne-: 
ceflary, as when new fwarms are in want. Various are 
the methods ufed in feeding of Bees, as well as the ma- 
terials; as fugar, falt, fweet- wort, Gc. which cannot be 
laid up for future fupply. | 
Honey alone is their natural and proper food ;' and 
when there is a real neceffity to feed any, give them no: 
jefs than a pound, or two pounds at once, and repeat ‘it, 
till you have furnifhed them with a fufficient quantity, 
This they will lay up in the cells for future ftore, 
The manner of adminiftring it may be this. Let 
your honey be brought to a due confiftence, or a liquid, 
by water, or fmall beer mixed with it; then pour it into 
a veflel prepared on purpofe, or into an empty comb, a 
Drone-comb (being ftrongeft) is the beft; and in the 
evening when all the other Bees are quiet, gently raifing 
the hive on-one fide, put it under; and the next day 
they will, with the greateft chearfulnefs convey it into 
if 
the magazines. 
