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is sometimes effectual, puffed into both hives. If 
fighting recommences on the succeeding day, the 
smoking should be repeated, followed by a feed of 
syrup. Others have found it advantageous to remove 
for some days a plundered hive to a distance ; or 
even to make the belligerent hives change places in 
the apiary; which, as a friend remarked to me, 
‘“‘cives a new tur to their ideas of mewn and tuum.” 
A German proprietor, after removing an attacked 
stock, put in its place a hive filled with wormwood 
leaves, which were so distasteful to the robbers that 
they forsook the spot, when the stock was brought 
back again. 
Autumnal Feeding. — All labour is now usually 
suspended for the year, and it remains to see that 
ample provision is laid up for the coming winter and 
spring. Mr. Cowan has recently estimated (in his 
paper on “‘ Wintering Bees,” referred to more fully 
in the next chapter) that a hive consumes, on an 
average, an ounce and a quarter of saccharine food 
per day, or a total of about thirteen pounds during the 
period from the 1st of October to the 1st of March. 
But he reminds us that it would never be safe to 
supply the bees with only the bare quantity that 
they are certain to require, for upon any fall in the 
temperature the rate will be greatly increased, and 
unless the insects possess a superabundance in their 
combs, they are continually given to flying out in 
the winter. He would therefore consider it unwise 
to settle down for that season with less than from 
twenty-five to thirty pounds in the combs. 
In ascertaining the weight of a given hive, Mr. 
