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and dripping sacks left over the skep. In a few minutes 
all was quiet. Where the ire of bees has been aroused 
by the careless removal of honey in Autumn. similar 
difficulties are likely to occur, but in this case they will 
remain irritable for days or weeks, unless fed with a little 
thin syrup in the evening. 
Robbing in the same apiary is sometimes cured by 
making the attacked hive exchange places with that of the 
assailants ; carbolic acid in solution, on cloths placed 
about the front of the unfortunate hive, will put an end to 
the disturbance ; and where all the stocks in an apiary can 
be fed up simultaneously in the Autumn, there will be no 
further inclination to rob, and all the necessary work may 
be completed in comfort.* 
Serious Robbing develops in Early Morning. 
It will be found that bad cases of robbing nearly always 
start early in the morning, before the owner is about. So 
convinced has the Author been as to this fact, that he is 
always on hand as soon as the bees may move about, 
especially during mild Autumn mornings. 
Some entrances may face the early sunlight, and the bees 
are on the move, while others, especially if they be nuclei, 
standing in the shade are not on guard. But one load of 
honey carried home, and soon excited pilferers in hundreds 
are mysteriously directed to the same sweet source, and all 
opposition is brushed aside by the determined onrush. 
His first approach to the apiary should inform the owner 
if any bees are darting about with unusual determination, 
even before he sees them. A handful of grass hastily 
thrown against the entrance is of course the handiest thing 
* This simple method of quieting the whole apiary was given in 
the es edition of this work. 
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