HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



Frequent cases of robbing are started in 

 the most innocent way imaginable by people's 

 making preserves in the neighborhood without 

 proper screens for the windows of the room 

 in which the preserving is done; I know of 

 one occasion when the bees drove a woman 

 from the room and swarmed upon the sugar 

 and syrup until it was all cleaned up, and it 

 was not until night that the woman could 

 get back. On the following morning thou- 

 sands of the little thieves were on hand to 

 complete the work and were only prevented 

 from continued robbing because every window 

 had been screened with mosquito netting 

 during the night. As it was, many bees 

 lingered about the windows all day, wondering 

 why their rich repast had been interfered with. 



I knew of another case where a good house- 

 wife was candying some peaches; the candied 

 peaches were placed on a large tray on a shed 

 to harden in the sun, and in a few hours some 

 bees from a neighboring apiary had discovered 

 them. Before night they had licked all the 



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