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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



Sept. 13, 1900 



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tract with impunity at any titne, pro- 

 viding that I have a bee-proof honey- 

 house, and return the extracted combs 

 at dusk, so that the bees can have them 

 cleaned up and everything in apple- 

 pie order before morning. 



Carelessness in feeding, or in expos- 

 ing sweets of any kind, is also often 

 the source of an outbreak of robbing. 

 But very few experiences, in an apiary 

 of any size, with the robbing propensi- 

 ties thoroly aroused, are required to 

 induce the greatest care in the per- 

 formance of any future operations that 

 are necessary during a dearth of honey. 



Of the many remedies that I have 

 tried in bad cases of robbing, carbolic 

 acid has been the most successful. 

 This acid emits an odor so obnoxious 

 to the olfactory organs of the bee that 

 only the legitimate occupants of the 

 hive, with their strong attachment to 

 home, will pass it, while the most per- 

 sistent marauders are content to sniff 

 it from afar. A weak mixture of the 

 acid and water sprinkled at the en- 

 trance is ofteti sufficient ; but in very 

 bad cases I find it a t>ig advantage to 

 throw a quantity of grass loosely at 

 the entrance, and sprinkle this occa- 

 sionally with the mixture. 



Apart from the loss sustained thru 

 the plunder and murder of their own 

 species another disagreeable result of 

 the robbing mania is the persistency 

 with which the demoralized bees at- 

 tack every living object in the vicinity 

 of the apiary, and the unfortunate at- 

 tendant speedily finds himself a spe- 

 cial target for the operations of their 

 stinging apparatus. — H. L,. JONBS. 



Confirming the above the editor says : 



I, too, can testify to the efficacy of 

 carbolic acid in cases of robbing ; and 

 I think that, if once tried, no apiary 



will be without a bottle of it To 



use the acid solution conveniently I 

 procure a tight-fitting cork and cut 

 two slots in it lengthwise. This makes 

 a good sprinkler of the bottle ; for, by 

 suddenly inverting it, several drops of 

 acid are thrown ottt, and by a simple 

 swing of the inverted bottle the acid 

 can be directed to any spot. When 

 bees get to making a target of the bee- 

 keeper he should wear a black hat, as 

 they will strike it every time. — Austra- 

 lasian Bee-Keeper. 



Bisulphide of Carbon. 



In order to make its use eS'ective it 

 is necessary that the combs to be 

 treated should be put in a barrel, box, 

 or something of the kind that can be 

 closed up perfectly tight ; and instead 

 of sprinkling a small amount of the bi- 

 sulphide on the inside of whatever is 

 tised, quite a quantity of it must be 

 placed inside in an open dish. I use a 

 small glass tumbler. The amount to 

 use does not matter so there is enough ; 

 for any that does not evaporate can 

 be poured back in the can for future 

 use, as, no matter how long a quantity 

 of it may have been exposed to the air 

 any of it which has not evaporated is 

 just as strong as it was before being 

 exposed. It is like chloroform in this 

 respect. The latter I have also used, 

 and found to be effective in destroying 

 worms in brood-combs. But it has no 

 effect on the eggs, and it utterly ruins 

 the flavor of comb honey, giving it a 

 strong rank taste. It is much more ex- 

 pensive for this purpose than the bi- 



