. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. description is needed beyond saying they are about nine inches long, and wide enough to slip easily over the coat-sleeve, with a band of elastic run into the hem at the bottom, and a rather longer band of the same material in the top edge. These keep the coat clean and pre- vent the possibility of bees getting up the arm or being crushed while on the wrists by the coat- sleeves. We much prefer them to the usual elastic band passed round the sleeve at the wrist. These sleevelets and a veil are all the protec- tion necessary for any and ever
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. description is needed beyond saying they are about nine inches long, and wide enough to slip easily over the coat-sleeve, with a band of elastic run into the hem at the bottom, and a rather longer band of the same material in the top edge. These keep the coat clean and pre- vent the possibility of bees getting up the arm or being crushed while on the wrists by the coat- sleeves. We much prefer them to the usual elastic band passed round the sleeve at the wrist. These sleevelets and a veil are all the protec- tion necessary for any and every operation required in bee-keeping. For the veil get a good one, take care of it, and it will last ten years or more. The best material for the pur- pose is fine black silk net; next to this, and fess expensive, of course, is fine Brussels net. These materials, though not so cheap as the ordinary coarse net or leno, are so much prefer- able to the latter, and withal so light and pleasant to wear, while hardly obstructing the vision at all, that any careful bee-keeper may invest in a veil of the right sort, though its cost is more than double that of a common one, for the material is so durable that it becomes cheap in the end. Our own veil weighs less than half an ounce, and may be carried unnoticed in the waistcoat pocket. Use no colour but black, and let it be simply a bag without covering top or bottom, about half a yard across and eighteen inches deep. Into a hem at the top edge insert a band of light elastic to slip over the hat. Notwithstanding the almost invariable advice given to have the lower side of the veil op»n for slipping beneath the coat collar, we much prefer to have a long piece of elastic (a narrow tape will answer, but not quite so well) run in the lower edge of the veil, not tight enough of itself to draw the veil close round the throat, but loose, so as to require pulling out in front while the veil is pressed back close to the throat with the hand. Worn
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