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Bad Policy To Raise The Hives

Categories: ROBBERIES.
Bee Keeping: Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained

A great many apiarians raise their hives an inch from the board early

in spring. They seem to disregard the chance it gives robbers to enter

on every side. It is like setting the door of your own house open, to

tempt the thief, and then complain of depravity.



Let it be understood, then, that all good stocks, under ordinary

circumstances, will take care of themselves. Nature has provided means

of defence, with instinct to direct its use. Non-resistance may do for

highly cultivated intellect in man, but not here.



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