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Objections To Suspended Bottom-board

Categories: DESTRUCTION OF WORMS.
Bee Keeping: Mysteries Of Bee-keeping Explained

Suppose, if you please, that the worm has no thread attached above, and

your board is far enough from the bottom of the hive to prevent his

reaching it. Of course, he can't get up; but how are your bees to do

any better? The worm can reach as high as they can. The bee can fly up,

you think; so it will, sometimes; but will try a dozen times first to

get up without, and when it does, it is a very bad position to start

fr
m, being a smooth board. In hot weather it does better. Did you ever

watch by a hive thus raised, in April or May, towards night, when it

was a little cool, and see the industrious little insects arrive with a

load as heavy as they could possibly carry, all chilly, and nearly out

of breath, scarcely able to reach home, and there witness their vain

attempts to get among their fellows above them? If you never witnessed

this, I wish you would take some pains for it, and when you find them

giving up in despair, when too chilly to fly, and perishing after many

fruitless attempts for life, I think, if you possess sympathy,

benevolence, or even selfishness, you will be induced to do as I

did--discard at once wire hooks and all else from under the hive in the

spring, and give the bees, when they do get home with a load, under

such circumstances, what they richly deserve, and that is,

_protection_.



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