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Si] Gols. Bea 
Of Feeding of Bees. 
EEDING Bees is what I have no great 
Opinion of, and very feldom practife ; 
yet it may fometimes be necefiary, as when 
new Swarms are in want. Various are the 
Methods ufed in feeding Bees, as well as the 
Materials; as Sugar, Salt, Sweet-wort, &e. 
which cannot be laid up for future Supply. 
_ Honey alone is their natural and proper 
Food ; and when there is a real Necef- 
fity to feed any, give them no lefs than a 
Pound, or two Pounds at once, and_ te- 
peat it, till you have furnifhed them with a 
iiiticicne Quantity. This they will lay up 
in the Cells. for future Store. 
‘The Manner of adminiftring it may be 
this. Let your Honey be brought to a due 
Confiftence, or a Liquid by Water, or {mall 
Beer mixed with it; then pour it into a 
Vefiel prepared on Purpofe, or into an empty 
Comb, a Drone-Comb (being ftrongeft) is 
the bett ; and in the Evening when all the 
other Bees are quiet, gently raifing the Hive 
on one Side, put it under; and the next 
Day they will, with the greateft Chearfulne(s, 
convey it into the Magazines, ' 
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