Thanks one and all for all your help but, after inspecting the hive in
question the other reasonably warm day, ~50 deg, all were dead.  So...no
need to feed!  I've started up the deep freeze in the barn and the supers
are going in until the unit can be re-populated in April.  There were still
about 41/2 - 5 frames of honey left in two deeps, mostly outside top.  I
discovered the hive had varroa late last summer so, after removing supers
first week of September, I treated with Apistan 9/4-10/14.  This was my most
productive hive last year with a seemingly strong and healthy population.
I'm convinced that this was brought on by my allowing the bees to clean up
wet supers which started robbing...NEVER AGAIN!

So far it has been my experience that beekeepers in general (especially the
ones I've met and/or conversed with via this list) are some of the
friendliest, most open , people I have ever had the pleasure of interacting
with...this seems especially true of the most experienced in the trade
(George! Loyd!...).

Thanks.