ADVICE TO BEGINNERS. 519 
Mistakes THAT Becinners Are LiaBLe To Make. 
895. 1.—They are apt to think themselves posted after 
they have read the theory, and before they get the practice. 
2.—Hence they are apt to invent or adopt new hives, 
that are lacking in the most important features (358). 
3.—They are apt to think that bees are harvesting honey, 
at times when they are starving. They should remember 
that each honey crop usually lasts only a few days,—a few 
weeks at most. 
4.—They are apt to mistake young bees on their first trip 
for robbers and vice versa. Young bees fly out in the after- 
noon only, and do not hunt around corners. Robbers ure 
gorged with honey when coming out of the plundered hive, 
and a number of them are slick, hairless and shiny. Bees 
that have been fed in the hive or whose combs have been 
damaged, or extracted, and returned to the hive, act like 
robbers, and incite robbing (664). 
5.—They are apt to overdo artificial swarming (481). 
6.—They are apt to extract too much honey from the 
brood-combs (771). 
7.—They underestimate the value of good worker comb. 
(676). r 
8.—They do not pay sufficient attention to the removal 
of the excess of drone-comb (675). 
9.—They become easilydiscouraged by Winter losses and 
Spring dwindling. Some of our most successful Apiarists 
periodically lose a large portion of their colonies, and 
promptly recruit again, by the help of their empty worker- 
combs (676). 
10.—When they find bee-keeping successful, they are 
liable to rush into it on too large a scale before being suffi- 
ciently acquainted with it. ‘‘If there is any business ip 
