THE BEE-MOTH. 
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every few days, until the bees could get the mastery of them, 
they could be saved, otherwise drive the bees out and take 
the honey. I have seldom derived much good from such 
stocks. 
Good bee men tell me that they have suffered but very little 
loss from worms since they have changed to Italian bees. 
When the bees are rid of the worms from the eggs of the 
previous year’s raising, there will be but little more trouble again 
until after the swarming time, and hives that lose queens, or 
are weakened by over-swarming; are in danger from the great 
number of moths that will be prowling about at that time. 
Destroy all the worms and moths you can in the early part of 
the season to prevent their breeding. Split alders laid under 
the hive offer a nice place for them to collect under where 
they can be destroyed. In my first attempts at harrowing I 
annoyed and worried myself exceedingly in holding the har- 
row to make it track right; and then did bungling work — 
the harrow going much as it pleased. I afterwards learned 
that my business was to guide the horses, and the harrow 
would come right of itself. And so with my bees. If they 
are kept right in other respects, I know there will be no dan- 
ger from worms. I nev.er lose any from this cause, neither 
do I direct much attention specially to their protection. The 
dread of the moth and a want of knowledge among bee-keep- 
ers, have given a fine chance to moth-proof bee-hive peddlers 
to operate. Doubtless most of them are honest in represent- 
ing that they have just the hive that is needed, But when 
the keeper has tried the “never fail” hive he finds that it too 
is subject to fail like all the others. When I commenced sel- 
ling hives, I had perhaps as complete a moth trap as is made 
attached to my hive, in order to satisfy this anxiety for 
such arrangements, but afterwards concluded to make nothing 
to it but what was actually needed. I have not seen, nor do 
I expect to see, a moth-pi‘oof hive; yet it is best to have hives 
made with few openings or cracks in them that bees cannot 
enter to clean out the worms. I have seen entrances made 
to hives that bees could pass in and out at, but moths could 
could not enter. I have seen a magnet placed at the entrance 
to paralyze the moth as it entered, but not to affect the bee. 
Some use pulverized glass or coarse sand glued to the boards 
about the entrance, presuming that bees can pass over such a 
rough surface and moths can not. A glass tube for an en- 
