. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. VOL, HI, FLINT, MICH^eM, JCHE 10, NO. Control of the Mind; A Ku-Klux Robe ; A Universal Work-Box; Played-out Conveniences ; Earth Pits for Crazy Swarms. E. E. HASTY. /pj) OMFORT like happiness cannot flour- J^^l ish much unless it has its inner springs in the man himself. Devise as well as we maj', bees will sometimes yet under our riy. Absurd as it may seem to outsiders, one of the things to be done is to compel a comfortable frame of mind within, even when a bee or two is perambulating the per- son, and hands are too imperatively occupied to ret
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. VOL, HI, FLINT, MICH^eM, JCHE 10, NO. Control of the Mind; A Ku-Klux Robe ; A Universal Work-Box; Played-out Conveniences ; Earth Pits for Crazy Swarms. E. E. HASTY. /pj) OMFORT like happiness cannot flour- J^^l ish much unless it has its inner springs in the man himself. Devise as well as we maj', bees will sometimes yet under our riy. Absurd as it may seem to outsiders, one of the things to be done is to compel a comfortable frame of mind within, even when a bee or two is perambulating the per- son, and hands are too imperatively occupied to retreat and get him out. A little philoso- phy .and experience enables one to attain to this. I have pursued the even tenor of my way, for a quarter of an hour or so, while a bee, who had finished his measurements for a bust of me, was vainly trying to get out from under my collar, which was a little too tight for him. Experience teaches us that such bees do not very often sting—so long as they are let entirely alone—and that going on a hunt for them very often results in pinching them into a sting. But anent this sharp-pointed subject, one of the comforts of my apiary (don't always show it to visi- tors though) is a Ku-klux robe, which goes all over the upper half of the individual, and has elastics at the wrists and waist. A square of silk net* in front provides for vision. Practically it is not very often that bees are so furiously cross that a Ku-kiux robe needs to be put on : but it is a great and frequent comfort to know that it is at hand, and can be put on rather than give up inglo- riously beaten. I do often have occasion to use it when it is so cold or so dark, that bees stupidly alight in great numbers on their keeper, and, without any evil intentions, crawl in search of a warm place. A swarming-time comfort not very com- mon in apiaries, I believe, is a brush of gieen foliage. Wings and brushes of hair F )uu make bees angry. Brushes of vegetable iibre ar^ better in
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