. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American "Bee Journal this way far better than can be done when the frames are set down on the ground outside the hive. If the bees show that they are becoming obstrep- erous at any time, a few more pufifs of smoke will quell them, and your nec- essary work will be done without stings or arousing the colony to a pitch that will be shown by their coming at you whenever you pass the hive for the next ten days. Now I do not want to leave the im- pression that this much smoke and then slow movements are required on all colonies. This is for " of
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. American "Bee Journal this way far better than can be done when the frames are set down on the ground outside the hive. If the bees show that they are becoming obstrep- erous at any time, a few more pufifs of smoke will quell them, and your nec- essary work will be done without stings or arousing the colony to a pitch that will be shown by their coming at you whenever you pass the hive for the next ten days. Now I do not want to leave the im- pression that this much smoke and then slow movements are required on all colonies. This is for " off days," for colonies known to be vindictive, and more especially for a beginner when making his first efforts at hand- ling bees. On bright days, when nec- tar is coming in, the usual procedure is to carefully raise the cover, blowing a little smoke in the crack when first made, when the cover is set beside the hive and the frames handled and the needed work done with any part of the hive, closing the same in less time than it has taken to tell how it is done. If there is anything that needs care, more than all else toward avoiding stings, it is that no bee be'mangled and killed through our manipulation. Few, if any colonies, are so peaceable that they will not resent, to the stinging point, having their sisters rolled and mangled as the frames of comb are lifted out and returned to the hive, and having from one to a dozen of their fellow workers crushed and killed when the cover to the hive is put on, as many do without first driving the bees off the joints where more or less of the colony congregate while we are at work. I have often wished, when in apiaries where the joints between the covers and hives were " carpeted " with dead bees which had accumulated from those killed with each manipulation, that the operator was obliged to take a sting for every bee killed in this way, believ- ing that such stings would show such a one that it would be more humane to t
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