HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



When bees are in full swing of robbing they 

 are liable not only to pounce upon a weak 

 hive, but in all likelihood will sting everything 

 and everybody in sight, including stock, and 

 for this, if for no other reason, it is important 

 to prevent robbing entirely, and if it is under 

 way to break it up at once. If we were sure 

 that the robbers were entirely our own bees, 

 it might not be a great loss in honey, as the 

 honey that was robbed will be transferred to 

 other hives in the yard, but in all probability 

 the robbers are from any and all hives within a 

 radius of three miles, and no one cares to enrich 

 the yards of a neighbor at one's own expense. 



It is sometimes the course of wisdom to 

 fight fire with fire, and to divert the robbers 

 from the hive that is being robbed by exposing 

 some combs of honey a little distance from 

 the apiary, and the robbers will leave the 

 hive they are robbing and devote their time 

 to the exposed combs, as there are no bees to 

 fight them. While they are robbing these 

 combs, the hives in the yard can be attended 



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