. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 28, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 199 hands, and nose, Mr. Bond, when I am busy with a hive of bees, I wear a veil to protect them. When a man tells me— even if he is an old bee-keeper—that he never wears a veil in his apiary work, and that he never gets stung-, I am dis- posed to think that he is talking thru his last year's hat. "Now come with me to my honey-house and I will see what I can do for your nose, Mr. Bond. I use alcohol for bad stings—red-hot ones, like the one you got on your nose —when I use anything at all. I will let you try
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 28, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 199 hands, and nose, Mr. Bond, when I am busy with a hive of bees, I wear a veil to protect them. When a man tells me— even if he is an old bee-keeper—that he never wears a veil in his apiary work, and that he never gets stung-, I am dis- posed to think that he is talking thru his last year's hat. "Now come with me to my honey-house and I will see what I can do for your nose, Mr. Bond. I use alcohol for bad stings—red-hot ones, like the one you got on your nose —when I use anything at all. I will let you try it. " Here," I said, after we had entered the room in the honey-house that I called my workshop, " I always keep a bottle of alcohol for emergencies. A small sponge saturated with some of it and applied to your nose for about ten min- utes will relieve the pain and reduce the swelling. I think the alcohol neutralizes the formic acid in the ; "Now, please tell me," said Mr. Bond, after several minutes silence, " why I got stung the minute I stept in front of that hive you were working at, and you, with your hands and your nose right down among the bees, wasn't ; "That's easily explained, Mr. Bond," I replied. "I account for it in this way : My bees know me. They are accustomed to my presence and to my manipulations. You, on the other hand, are a stranger. They know you as such by sight and smell. Then, to make bad worse, you plant your perspiring person directly in front of their only door, and so near that they can't help but regard you as an in- truder, with evil intention toward them. There are always a number of bees on guard at the entrance of their hive, and these guards are very vigilant. No doubt they saw you at once, and one of them took aim at your face and struck j'our nose. A hot sting like that is never an accidental one, I can assure you. It's a good rule never to stand in front of a
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