. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. IT, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 355 t'nless one wears a veil the thing should be clone quickly, because the " waspes " object to anyone meddling with their door- way. A lady once said to me, "Of course you are never stung, because you are with your bees so much that they must know you " ! I replied that seeing bees only live about six weeks in the summer the acquain- tanceship would not be long. Some people make a great fuss if they happen to be stung by a bee, but for my own part I think it does the system a
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Sept. IT, 1914.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 355 t'nless one wears a veil the thing should be clone quickly, because the " waspes " object to anyone meddling with their door- way. A lady once said to me, "Of course you are never stung, because you are with your bees so much that they must know you " ! I replied that seeing bees only live about six weeks in the summer the acquain- tanceship would not be long. Some people make a great fuss if they happen to be stung by a bee, but for my own part I think it does the system a certain amount of good in warding off rheumatism, gout, cvc. And in connec- tion with this matter I recently met a man who was very badly stung by bees last August. He said that up till then he always had a severe yearly attack of sciatica, which quite disabled him. Since this stinging he has had no return of the trouble, and he wondered whether to attribute this to the counter-irritant in the stings, or to the delightful bee weather we have so much enjoyed. As a bee man I assured him that this immunity is due to the bees. But if his sciatica returns I fear I shall have to take a back seat! As the bee-driving season is now on a few experiences of my own might be in- teresting. Recently a skeppist wrote us that we could have his spare stocks to drive. These were located by the side of the road, and whilst my companion was laboriously drumming the bees from the last skep I heard a squeal, the dash of a bucket, on the ground, and the scamper of hasty feet. A woman going to the village pump for water got a bee entangled in her hair, and fled forthwith, leaving her bucket in the road. She was much agitated, and said that "bee-taking didn't ought to be done in the ; I fetched her bucket of water, and picked the buzzing bee out of her hair. This was the result of having bees near the public road. Another day I had practically driven all the bees from a very heavy ske
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