Gleanings in bee culture . had cap-tured this queen. It seems he had an out-apiary located in a farmers orchard; andwhen he drove up to it one day he was sur-prised to find the farmers daughter up anapple-tree trying to capture a runawayswarm. Upon his appearance, the estimableyoung lady hastily clambered down, and,with many blushes, took to the house in dovible-quick time. Ourfriend, however, wasfortunate enough, sometime later, to captureher, and she now pre-sides over his home, andis the mother of his twosplendid boys — Lester,live years, and Donald,two. Mrs. Lockhart gaveme the recipe for
Gleanings in bee culture . had cap-tured this queen. It seems he had an out-apiary located in a farmers orchard; andwhen he drove up to it one day he was sur-prised to find the farmers daughter up anapple-tree trying to capture a runawayswarm. Upon his appearance, the estimableyoung lady hastily clambered down, and,with many blushes, took to the house in dovible-quick time. Ourfriend, however, wasfortunate enough, sometime later, to captureher, and she now pre-sides over his home, andis the mother of his twosplendid boys — Lester,live years, and Donald,two. Mrs. Lockhart gaveme the recipe for a lo-tion for bee stings, andone that has real meritin it. Mix equal partsof laudanum, aconite,and chloroform, and ap-ply to the part stung,and the effect is almostimmediate in the reliefafforded. The end of my visitcame with much re-gret, for I felt it a realprivilege to enjoy thehospitality of such ahome, and to come intoclose touch with such amaster in the art ofqueen-rearing as Mr. Lockhart is known to , N. FIG. 3.—A COMB OF HONEY FROM A COLONY OF BANATS, SHOWING THE VERY W^HITE CAPPINGS. 1907 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 705 VEILS. How to Make and Wear Them. BY DR. C. C. MILLER. I doubt the wisdom of going among an av-erage lot of bees without wearing a veil. Ina very hot day it is decidedly uncomfortable tohave a smothered sort of feeling that a veil fives, and I may not have my veil down,ut I want it ready to pull down at a mo-ments warning. To the beginner theres asort of fascination about the idea of being ableto say, I never wear a veil, and even someof experience take pride in going withoutone when they might do better with one. One objection to going without a veil hasperhaps never presented itself to many. Itis that the absence of a veil is hard on thebees. Before reading any further, stop andthink whether you can give the reason it up? Well, Ill tell you. If you wearno veil, its piactically certain that youlluse a good deal more smoke than you
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