CHAPTER IX 



SALT— HOW TO. BE USED. 



Various are the benefits ascribed to the use of salt, 

 by the bee-keepers of our country, who profess to have 

 no further knowledge of bees, than that which has been 

 taught them from tradition, or from such experience as 

 they have had in the management of bees, which 

 amounts to letting them take care of themselves, and if 

 they live — well — if they die — it is the same. This is 

 about ail the knewledge, that the majority of the bee- 

 keepers of the world over possess. 



SALT PUT UNDER THE EDGES OF HIVES. 



Salt, say these sapient bee-keepers, should be placed 

 under the edges, and perhaps under the whole hive, as I 

 have seen many instances, to prevent the moths enter- 

 ing I This is a perfect fallacy. No quantity of salt 

 ever yet kept a moth out of the hive- The moth is a 

 winged insect, and enters the hive, without coming 

 in contact with this salt, even if there were a peck of it 

 there. The moth alights on the outside of the hive, — 

 runs in through the entrance, on the upper side gene- 



