. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 686 AMERICAN BEE CONDUCTED BY Beeville, Texas. To Stop Robbing When Well Started. At one time we undertook to transfer outside of tlie bee-wagon, and oh, my, the robbers ! Well, something bad to be done at once, and we closed all the hives being robbed, and when the rob- ber bees would collect in great knots on the hives, we threw some water on them and wet them all over, and you ought to see how soon it stopped them. Jennie Atchley. More About Skunks, Etc. Weil, we are always "larnin"' some- thing. When we first began to put out
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 686 AMERICAN BEE CONDUCTED BY Beeville, Texas. To Stop Robbing When Well Started. At one time we undertook to transfer outside of tlie bee-wagon, and oh, my, the robbers ! Well, something bad to be done at once, and we closed all the hives being robbed, and when the rob- ber bees would collect in great knots on the hives, we threw some water on them and wet them all over, and you ought to see how soon it stopped them. Jennie Atchley. More About Skunks, Etc. Weil, we are always "larnin"' some- thing. When we first began to put out poisoned hen's-eggs, we were at first puzzled to know why we could not poison the skunks after they had eaten all the poisoned eggs. Well, I will tell you just how we were fooled. We would make a littie hole in the large end of the eggs and drop in the poison. Well, sir, we soon found that there was a vacancy, or the eggs were hollow at the large end, and we failed to break the film, and the poison lay between the shell and film, and the skunk did not get it. So we put out another dozen eggs, and put the poison in at the small end, and we were sure that it went clear into the egg. The result was, we killed six or seven "cats"the first night; and soon had them all killed that visited our api- ary, as I have noticed no signs of them for several days. It has been raining now for about 24 hours, and still raining, which is the first rain of any consequence since last May, in this country. These fine rains now mean honey next spring. Water will now be plenty, and the grass green, and early in January the bees will be- gin to hum on chaperal. The long faces of the farmers and stockmen are now changed, as well as those of the bee- keepers, and pleasant smiles are to be met now at every gathering. The thermometer now (Nov. 13th) registers about 50-^ above zero, and it is raining, so you see we have nice, warm weather yet. Jennie Atchley. A Portable Transferring House. Oh, yes
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