COJSTTE KTS. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



ROBBERIES. 



Not properly understood, . . 142 

 Improper Remedies, . . . 143 

 Difficulty in deciding-, . . . 144 

 Weak families in most danger, . 144 



Their Battles, 14& 



Bad policy to raise the Hives, . 146 

 Indications of Robbers, . . . 145 

 A Duly, . . . . . .147 



A Test, 147 



Robbiing usually commences on a 

 warm day, . . • 148 



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 . 150 

 151 

 . 153 



Remedies, 

 Common Opinion, 

 A case in point, 

 Further Directions, 

 Common cause of commencing, . 

 Spring the worst time, . 

 No necessity to have Bees plun- 

 dered in the fall, . . • 153 



CHAPTER IX. 



FEEDING BEES. 



Should be a lEist resort, . . . 154 



Care needed, 154 



Apparent contradiction when feed- 

 ing causes starvation, . . 155 

 How long it will do to wait before 

 feedmg, 156 



Whole Families may desert the 

 Hive, .... 



Objections to general feeding. 

 Arrangement for feeding, 

 Feeding to induce early swarms, 

 What may be fed, . 



Directions for feeding, . 



. 157 Is candied honey injurious ? . 



15S 

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 . 161 



162 

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CHAPTER X. 



DESTRUCTION OF "WORMS. 



Some in the best Stocks, . 164 

 How Found, . . . . 165 

 A tool for their destruction, . 165 

 Mistaken Conclusions, . . . 167 

 Objections to suspended Bottom- 

 board, 167 



Advantage of the Hive close to the 

 board, 168 



Objection Ai^wered, . . . 169 

 Insufficiency of inclined Bottom- 

 board, 169 



A Moth can go where Bees 



can, ...*.. 170 

 Trap to catch Worms, . . . 170 

 Box for Wren, . . . * 171 



CHAPTER SI. 



PUTTINa, ON AND TAKING OFF BOXES. 

 Advantage of tlie Patent Tender, . 172 Time taken to fill a box. 



Time of puttmg on — ^Rule, . . 172 

 Making holes after the Hive is 



full, 174 



Advantage of proper arrangement, 174 

 Directions for boring holes in full 



Stock, 176 



To be taken off when filled, 



. 177 Rule, 



. 178 



When to take off boxes part full, . 178 

 Tobacco Smoke preferred to Slides, 178 

 Manner of disposing of the Bees in 



the boxes, .... 179 



Bees disposed to carry away honey, 179 

 Not disposed to sting, . . . 180 



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