HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



get over their demoralization, and can mar- 

 shal and organize their scattered forces for a 

 good resistance; and if toward evening the 

 entrance to the hive is contracted it will have 

 spent its course as far as that hive individually 

 is concerned. Sprinkling the brush with cold 

 water has a good effect upon the robbers, and 

 they will often give up at once rather than 

 run the risk of getting wet and being placed 

 hors de combat. Frequently I have broken 

 up a case of robbing by squirting kerosene oil 

 on the front and on the alighting-board of 

 the hive being robbed, and this has proved 

 effective, because the robbers at once become 

 suspicious of the strange odor. It must be 

 remembered that a bee that is robbing is on 

 the lookout continually for some trap to catch 

 him in his piratical career, and their actions 

 indicate the fear of being killed. 



Sometimes a colony will be so completely 

 cleaned out of its stores that it will be a wise 

 thing to let the robbers finish their work at 

 that hive rather than give their attention to 



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