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CONTENTS 
CHAPTER VIII. 
ROBBERIES. 
Not properly understood, 
Improper Remedies, 
Difficulty in deciding, 
Weak families in most danger, 
Their Battles, . 
Bad policy to raise the Hives, 
Indications of Robbers, . 
A Duty, 
A Test, 
142 
Robbing usually commences 
on a 
143 
warm day, 
. 148 
144 
Remedies, . , 
. 149 
144 
Common Opinion, . 
. 149 
145 
A case in point, 
. 149 
146 
Further Directions, . 
. 150 
146 
Common cause of commencing, . 151 
147 
Spring the worst time, . 
. 152 
147 
No necessity to have Bees 
plun- 
dered in the fall, 
. 153 
CHAPTER IX. 
FEEDING BEES. 
Should be a last resort, . .154 Whole Families may 
Care needed, 154 Hive, 
Apparent contradiction when feed- Objections to general feeding, . 159 
ing causes starvation, . . 155 Arrangement for feeding, . .159 
How long it will do to wait before Feeding to induce early swarms, . 161 
feeding, 156 What may be fed, .... 162 
Directions for feeding, . . .157 Is candied honey injurious? . .162 
desert the 
. 158 
CH APT 
DESTRUCTION 
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 
ER X. 
OF WORMS. 
Objection Answered, . . . 169 
Insufficiency of inclined Bottom- 
board, 169 
A Moth can go where Bees 
can, ...... 170 
Trap to catch Worms, . . . 170 
Box for Wren, .... 171 
CHAPTE R 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 bo taken off when filled, . .177 
Time taken to fill a box, . . . 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 
Rule, 181 
