. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 30, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 755 poses. With 70 colonies of bees and a 6-acre orchard, sup- ply and demand are about equal. Of course, the propolis has to be rendered plastic by warming- over the tire before using:, when, by keeping- the lump against your breast, it will remain soft any length of time. There is no better grafting- material than propolis, and if orchardists were aware of that fact there should be a good demand for it at a price that would make it pay to collect. Some time ago a contributor to the American Bee Jour- nal suggeste
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Nov. 30, 1899. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 755 poses. With 70 colonies of bees and a 6-acre orchard, sup- ply and demand are about equal. Of course, the propolis has to be rendered plastic by warming- over the tire before using:, when, by keeping- the lump against your breast, it will remain soft any length of time. There is no better grafting- material than propolis, and if orchardists were aware of that fact there should be a good demand for it at a price that would make it pay to collect. Some time ago a contributor to the American Bee Jour- nal suggested that I might tell something about the inter- esting habits of the Indicator miliar, or South African honey-bird. I complied, and mentioned that the curious little critter is as likely to lead one into danger as to a bee- nest, and told how that one had once led me, and that when unarmed, into a narrow, rocky defile, and right on to the fresh tracks of a large tiger. He would have" brought me, probably, on to the beast hinself had my practiced eye not caught sight of the " spoor," and had Inot, with anything but gracious words, refused to follow him farther. Some- times they will lead one to a cobra, or to a sleeping puflf- adder. I refer to the subject again because the other day one of these birds led me a long dance after him in the boiling sun, and just when by his excited antics I concluded I was near mj' reward, and my mouth was beginning to water for honey, the little rascal showed me, lying prone in the shade of a bush, the malodorous form of a drunken hottentot I Upon mentioning this to a neighbor he told me that one of these birds once led him to a buck, taking a siesta on the shady side of a bush ; and that upon another occasion he followed one a long distance, to be shown a little bundle of recently bought store-goods tied up in a white handker- chief, and which some one had dropt. They attract one's attention by fluttering on the ground just in fron
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