. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. December, 1913. American "Bee Journal blamed the fox for the theft of the honey ? Scranton. Pa. F. W. Brady. lYou do not say whether the bees who took that honey were the same ones who had supplied it in the first place. It might have come from another hive. Don't you think that, if the bees could accuse the fox of stealing tlie honey, they might also have noticed that he was caged ? IE bees always tried to sting to death those who deprive them of some of tlieir honey, some of us would probably have been stung to death by this time. Laying jokes
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. December, 1913. American "Bee Journal blamed the fox for the theft of the honey ? Scranton. Pa. F. W. Brady. lYou do not say whether the bees who took that honey were the same ones who had supplied it in the first place. It might have come from another hive. Don't you think that, if the bees could accuse the fox of stealing tlie honey, they might also have noticed that he was caged ? IE bees always tried to sting to death those who deprive them of some of tlieir honey, some of us would probably have been stung to death by this time. Laying jokes aside, it is quite probable that there was some dispute among the bees of several hives upon the carrying away of that honey. This is usually the case Then, angry behavior and fights being the result the restless fox was attacked as would have been other hairy, living creatures close at hand. At a time of robbing, we have seen the bees of very peaceable colonies attack men and beasts at quite a distance. That is another argument against ever exposing any sweets in reach of the bees in times of scarcity. Fighting for exposed sweets ren- ders them uncommonly irritable.— They work on red clover as well as any Ital- ian bee. and they gather very little propolis and cap their honey nice and white. The Carniolan bee has come to stav in my api- ary. Edward V. Makek. Peoria, Sept. lo. smartweed. dandelion, straggling sweet clover and other like flowers. I had 30 colonies, spline count, and in- creased to ^0, and they >vill go into winter in fair condition. Arkansas City, Oct. lo. Carniolans All Right Attached is photograph of one of my Car- niolan colonies. Please note in the Bee Journal of October. 1012, on page «i, I made inquiry about larger hives, and the advice I got from your valuable Journal shows the result this year. The colony in the photo-. 210 Pounds of Comb Honey Were Pro- duced BY THIS Colony this Season. graph has made 210 pounds of
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