142 SPRING. 



put our hives in, and get them tco- close. " Can't 

 afford to build a house, and give them so much room, 

 no how." 



CHAPTEK VIII. 



BOBBERIES. 



Bobbing is another source of occasional loss to the 

 apiarian. It is frequent in spring, and at any time in 

 warm weather when honey is scarce. It is very an- 

 noying, and sometimes gets neighbors in contention, 

 when perhaps neither is to blame, farther than igno- 

 rance of the matter. 



NOT PROPERLY UNDERSTOOD. 



A person keeping many hives must expect to be 

 accountable for all losses in his neighborhood, whether 

 they are lost by mismanagement or want of manage- 

 ment. Many people suppose, if one person has but 

 one stock, and another has ten, that the ten will com- 

 bine for plundering the one. There are no facts, , 

 showing any communication between different families 

 of the same apiary, that I can discover.. It is true, 

 when one family finds another weak and defenceless, 

 possessing treasure, they have no conscientious scru- 

 ples about carrying off the last particle. The hurry 

 and bustle attending it seldom escape the notice of 

 the other families; and when one hive has been 

 robbed in an apiary, perhaps two-thirds of the other 



