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CONTENTS 
CHAPTER VIII. 
Not properly understood, 
Improper Remedies, 
Difficult} in deciding, 
Weak families in most danger, 
Their Battles, .... 
Bad policy to raise the Hives, 
Indications of Robbers, . 
A Duty, 147 
A Test, 147 
Robbing usually commences on a 
warm day, 
148 
Remedies 
149 
Common Opinion, . 
149 
A case in point, . 
149 
Further Directions, . 
150 
Common cause of commencing, . 
151 
Spring the worst timi, . 
152 
No necessity to have Bees plun- 
dered in the full, 
163 
ROBBERIES. 
. 142 
. 143 
. 144 
. 144 
. 145 
. 146 
. 146 
CHAPTER IX. 
FEEDING BEES. 
Should be a lost resort, . . .151 
Care needed, 154 
Apparent contradiction when feed- 
ing causes starvation, . . 155 
How long it will do to wail before 
feeding, .... 156 
Directions for feeding, . . . 157 
Whole Families may desert the 
Hive, 158 
Objections to general feeding, . 159 
Arrangement for feeding, . . 159 
Feeding to induce early swarms, . 161 
What may be fed, .... 162 
Is candied honey injurious? . .162 
CHAPTER X. 
DESTRUCTION OF WORMS. 
Some in the best Slocks, . . 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 Answered, . . . 169 
Insufficiency of inclined Bottom- 
board, 169 
A Moth can go where Bees 
can, .... . . 170 
Trap to catch Worms,-— i . . 170 
Box for Wren, .... 171 
CHAPTER XI. 
PUTTING ON AND TAKING OFF BOXES..* 
Advantage of the Patent Vender, . 172 
Time of putting 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 
Time taken to fill a box, . . . 178 
When to take off boxes part full, . 178 
Tobatico 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 
Rule, 18j 
