. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 204 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Tune stroll-delicately over to the friendly shelter of a barn, to remove the stings and vainly try to make myself invulnerable. It was not necessary to open a hive to investigate this de- moniac frenzy. At the home yards this condition did not .start quite so early nor did they get ([uitc so bad, but'considerably worse than anything 1 had before. Now for the possible cause. I have for seven years allowed a few sheep in the home apiary to keep down the grass. These, at "first, were Suffolks. having smooth blac
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 204 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL Tune stroll-delicately over to the friendly shelter of a barn, to remove the stings and vainly try to make myself invulnerable. It was not necessary to open a hive to investigate this de- moniac frenzy. At the home yards this condition did not .start quite so early nor did they get ([uitc so bad, but'considerably worse than anything 1 had before. Now for the possible cause. I have for seven years allowed a few sheep in the home apiary to keep down the grass. These, at "first, were Suffolks. having smooth black faces, a ready mark for the bees. Last year I changed to Oxfords. These have very woolly faces, few vulnerable spots, and they are not nearly so much afraid of bees as the Suffolks. Hav- ing a few young rams, I shut them in the apiary, and my theory is that they disturbed the bees at nights. At the outapiary the cause was similar, though conditions differed. It was after the honey was ofif and work for the season was over that I discov- ered what seemed a plausible reason for the anger of the bees. The bluff, a few feet from the hives, had been, during the fly season, the stamping ground at night for a bunch of horses. The soil was a very heavy, rubber-like clay. I think they would feel the vibration, with the resultant irritability. Do you think this pos- sible, or has anything similar ever been reported? CANADA. (We believe your surmise is right. It takes very little to render some bees cross. When they once become cross, it seems to remain in the fam- ily. The only way we have ever found to change the disposition was to change the queen. But the initial cause of the ill-disposition must be also altered.—C. P. D.) Queen Bee Introduction by Means of All-Young Bees By F. Greiner Our friend. Jay Smith, tells in Glean- ing of some humiliating facts as re- gards queen introduction. I have no- ticed we go along sometimes a term of years and have remarkable success in introducin
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