110! |The Hiftory of Baws. 
With this the Doétor fays the Bees feed 
_ their Young. If he means the Young in 
the Cells, befere they break: thro’ the In- 
clofure, he fays the fame thing with Ru/den, 
who oft affirms this Mixture is. put. into 
thofe Cells, wherein is the Ege or Sperm, 
only as Matter of Nutrition, 
But if the Doctor means, that this is 
Food for the young Bees after they are 
bred, and abroad in the Hive (elfe he fays 
nothing to the Purpofe) I deny it; well 
knowing, that both Queens, Commons and 
Drones live only upon Honey. In many 
Hives, little or nothing of this Matter is to 
be found in the void and empty Cells, Bees 
in fuch Hives or Colonies muft moft furely 
live upon Honey, and that alone. 
Let us for once fuppofe a Stock {upplied 
with the greateft Plenty of what fome call 
Bee-Bread ; I dare to fay it, from frequent 
Obfervation and Experience, they would 
certainly, and fpeedily perifh, if at the 
fame Time they were deftitute of other 
Support, 
Oft have I found this verified, greatly to 
my Difadvantage ; many Stocks at the End 
of May full of Bees, and the Swarms 
daily expected, thus mifcarrying ; not for 
‘want of that Sort of Bread, of which there 
was fufficient Store, but for want of more 
agreeable and neceflary Food. Great Num- 
bers being bred that Spring, all the former 
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