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In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14. 



Catcliins an Apiary Thief. 



Query 996.— What method would you take 

 to catch a thief that felt free to visit your 

 apiary and slip out a comb here and there 

 when you were absent from home ?— Parson- 

 age Apiary. 



P. H. El wood— Offer a reward of !i)25 

 or $50. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — Keep Cyprian bees 

 or a bulldog. 



W. R. Graham — I would watch as 

 closely as possible. 



Dr. J. P. H. Brown — Set a tread or 

 trigger gun for him. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I would have to 

 know all the surroundings. 



Eugene Secor — I don't know, but I'd 

 catch him some way — if I could. 



J. E. Pond — Watch for him capture 

 him in the act, and then " go for him." 



R. L. Taylor — I would set a watch if I 

 expected the depredation to be repeated. 



E. France — I have some trouble with 

 thieves, and would like to know how to 

 catch them. 



Rev. M. Mahin — That is a hard ques- 

 tion to answer. It would depend upon 

 circumstances. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— The only effort I ever 

 made was to watch in ambtish. But the 

 effort was a failure. 



J. A. Green — Probably the best plan 

 would be to have some reliable person 

 keep watch "on the quiet." 



Rev. E. T. Abbott — I can't say what I 

 would do. I have not had much experi- 

 ence in the detective business. 



B. Taylor — I would watch for him and 

 catch him by his coat tail, provided he 

 had one; if not, I would seize him by 

 his hair or whiskers. 



C. H. Dibbern — I should set a trap for 

 him; i. e., leave some one to watch the 

 apiary when the thief would suppose the 

 folks were all away from home. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — Whilesuch a thing 

 would be annoying and mean, yet if it 

 were not repeated often enough to cause 

 a considerable loss, I should prefer not 

 to know just who did it. 



Chas. Dadant & Son — If you know 

 who he is, send him a comb of honey, 

 and ask him to come to your house in- 

 stead of your apiary for what honey he 

 wants. That will stop him. 



W. G. Larrabee — I think a good way 

 would be to leave a good, trusty bulldog 

 at home, and may be you could fit the 

 piece of cloth that was found in the dog's 

 mouth into the hole in the thief's trou- 

 sers. 



J. M. Hambaugh — Have a wire con- 

 nected to the trigger of a shot-gun at 

 one end, and secured at the other, and 

 stretched through the yard so as to 

 catch the foot of intruders. A blank 

 cartridge is sufficient. They will never 

 come back. 



G. W. Demaree — Well, now my ex- 

 perience is with night prowlers. To keep 

 this class of thieves out of my apiary, I 

 have kept a sort of street-lamp burning 

 all night, that casts its light over the en- 



tire apiary. If I had a daytime sneak 

 to deal with, I would manage to make 

 him believe I was going away to be gone 

 all day, but instead of going away, I 

 would " id)/ for him." and give him a 

 lecture on the moral law, if he was found 

 transgressing. 



G. M. Doolittle— Try the religion of 

 Jesus Christ on him. You undoubtedly 

 guess who he is. Make friends with 

 him, and a little later give him 10 or 

 more pounds of nice section honey, and 

 that will punish him more, and do you 

 more (700(J than to use the law on him, 

 could you " catch " him. 



W. M. Barnum— Mark your frames, 

 and set somebody to watching. It seems 

 to me suspicion would naturally fall 

 upon some hybrid bee-keeper, and that 

 it would not be difficult to get proper 

 authority to examine his apiary, and, if 

 your combs were marked, to secure 

 thereby sufficient evidence to convict the 

 thief. 



J. M. Jenkins— I would "lay for him," 

 with a shot-gun, "not necessarily for 

 use, but as a guarantee of good faith," 

 etc., at some time when I was absent (?); 

 or have a friend to do so for me. He is 

 a very considerate thief, to take only 

 "a comb here and there;" while most 

 of them ruin a colony, or carry it away 

 in toto. 



H. D. Cutting— It is not much of a 

 thief that takes but a comb "here and 

 there." It may be some other preacher, 

 for a joke. You should invite him to 

 sit up with a good dog, and if you 

 wanted to make it a little hotter for 

 him, go out and preach to him for a few 

 hours, just for practice. You will find 

 27 excellent texts. 



Jas. A. Stone — Do as I once did for a 

 watermelon patch. Load a gun with 

 only powder, and attach a very fine wire 

 to the trigger, where he will trip it. One 

 day while at dinner we heard the gun. 

 Said nothing about it. Before many 

 days a boy not far away told that I shot 

 at him in my melon patch. I was not 

 bothered for years after. 



Allen Pringle— As the question is 

 signed " Parsonage Apiary," I take it 

 that a parson asks the question. Well, 

 Parson, I will tell you what I should do 

 if I were in your place: I would try 

 first to cure him by "heaping coals of 

 tire upon his head" — not, of course, 

 literally, but metaphorically, or rather, 

 scripturally. As soon as I got home and 

 found he " had been and gone and done 

 it" again, I would count carefully the 

 number of frames he had taken, then I 

 would take a like number of frames — 

 the exact number — and send them over 

 to him accompanied by a note stating 

 that you could ill spare those frames— 

 that your colonies would suffer on ac- 

 count of their removal — but begging 

 him to accept them, as you were con- 

 vinced from what took place in your 

 bee-yard in your absence, that he needed 

 the frames very badly — perhaps worse 

 than you did — and that you had accord- 

 ingly sent them to him. If his cussed- 

 ness — his "innate depravity " was such 

 that this failed to melt him (to hum his 

 conscience) then I would set a bear-trap 

 for him, and pray night and morning 

 that he get into it. 



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