. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. August 21, 1913.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 835 latent tactfulness of any bee-keeper wlio is worth liis .; Now, it is a hopeful sign when a human animal has a bit of the devil in his com- 2)osition; but we like the devil, whether in boy or girl, to be kept well whipped and confined within i-easonable limits, for we hold that half the battle of life eon- .sists in keeping one's own particidar devil in a state of chronic whippedness. In the case of bees we expect the fighting ten- dency to be kept so well in check that the owners of
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. August 21, 1913.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 835 latent tactfulness of any bee-keeper wlio is worth liis .; Now, it is a hopeful sign when a human animal has a bit of the devil in his com- 2)osition; but we like the devil, whether in boy or girl, to be kept well whipped and confined within i-easonable limits, for we hold that half the battle of life eon- .sists in keeping one's own particidar devil in a state of chronic whippedness. In the case of bees we expect the fighting ten- dency to be kept so well in check that the owners of it will submit to interfer- ence and robl)ery with a good grace and, if , with a grateful heart. This is precisely what the Rhodesian bee will tli'6 stocks are strong and bent on making their pile soon as they can, a gentle colony is about as rare as is a gentle South African capitalist when anyone tries to diminish his pile. The importa- tion of gentler races is veiy much re- stricted by lav/; and the owner of a hun- dred hives, who objected to such legisla- tion, declared that he would as .soon burn his hives as people them with Rhodesian bees. This last year I had seven stocks of Rhoidesians, which yielded over 3001b. of run honey and about 300 sections—and that in a season of drought. Nearly all the rain came in a heap during less than. A MIDSUMMER S DAY SWARM. not do. For hundreds, nay, thousands of generations, her passions have been alloAved to 'rise, and she defends herself savagely against the most tactful and benevolent aggressor. According to the French saying, " Cet animal est fort mediant; Quand on I'attaque il .se ; Before coming to this country I had much contempt for bee gloves, but now I put them on double, and generally do the robbing at night, not so much for my own sake as for that of the neighbours. The most that one can say is that the bees are not always savage. Small colo- nies are often good tempered-and can be united ea
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