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CPIAPTER XIV. 



RoDBiNQ. Idleness a great cause of it, 305. Guloulca should be examfued and 

 supplied wiUi food in Spring. Appearance or robber bees, 306. Tlielr suapicioua 

 actions. Are real " Jerry Sneaka," 3C8. Hlgliwny robbers, 309. Bee battles. 

 Subjected bees unite with tike cnn(iueror». Cautions against robbery. Import- 

 ance of guarding against robbery, 310. Kfllciency of tlie movable blocks to this 

 end. Comb with honey uot to be exposed, 3U. Curious case of robbery, 314. 



CHAPTER XV. 



Directions for Fegdinq Bees. Feeding greutly mismanaged. Condition 

 of the bees should be ascertained iu the Spring. They should be supplied if 

 needy, 315. Many perish from want. Connection between feeding and breed- 

 ing in ihe hive, 3i6. Caution in feeding necessary. Results of over feeding, 317* 

 Necessary to feed largely iu multiplying stocks. ITow to feed weak swarms in 

 Spring, 319. Considerations governing the quantity of food, 320. Main object 

 to produce bees. Proper condition of an Apiary at close of honey season, 321. 

 Feeding for Winter attended to in August. Unsealed honey sours. Sour food 

 is unwholesome to bees. Striking instance, 392. Spare honey to be appoitioned 

 among the stocks. Swarms with overstocks of honey do not breed so well. 

 Surplus honey in Spring to be removed, 323. Full frames exchanged for empty 

 ones. Feeble slocks in Fall, to be broken up. Profits all come from strong 

 swarms. Composition of a good bee-feed, 324. Dirc'ctions for feeding with the 

 improved hive, 325. Feeding useless when but lirtle comb in the hive, 326. 

 Top feeding. Feeder described. Importance of water to bees, 328. Sugar can- 

 dy a valuable substitute for honey. Summer feeding, 830. Bees with proper 

 care need but little feeding. Quantity of honey necessary to winter <l stock, 

 331. Feeding as a source of profit. Selling W. I. honey a cheat, 332. Honey 

 not a secretion of the bee. Evaporation of iis water the principal change it 

 undergoes, 334. Folly of diluting the feed of bees too much. Feeders of cheap 

 honey for market, deceivers or deceived, 33j. Artificial liquid honey, 336. Im- 

 proved Maple sugar, 337. Feeding bees on artificial honey not profitable, 337. 

 Dangerous feeding bees without floats. Their infatuation for liquid sweets, 

 339. Like that of the inebriate fur his cups, 340. Avarice in bees and men, 

 341. 



CHAPTER XVI, 



Honey. Pasturage. Oversiocking. Honey the product of flowers, 342. 

 Honey dew. Aphides, 343. Qualities of honey, 345. Poisonous honey. In- 

 noxious by boiling. Preserving honey, 346. Modes of taking honey from the 

 hive. Objections to glass vessels, 347. Pasteboard boxes preferred. Honey 

 should be handled carefully. Pattern comb to be used in the boxes. Horey 

 safely removed, 348. Should not be raken from the bees in large quantities dur- 

 ing honey harvest. Pasturage, 349. The Willow. Sugar Maple and other hon- 

 ey-yielding trees, 330. Linden tree as an ornament. While clover, 3.1. Recom- 

 mended by Hon. Frederick Holbrook as o grass croji, 358. Sweet-scented do- 



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