. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 12, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 237 but if there are many colonies, look out for robbing. I have stopt the worst cases of rob- bing- I ever saw with a spray-pump and cold water, in a few minutes; but don't spare the water—give every colony that shows any excitement a good soak- ing at the entrance. _ Last season I used spirits of turpen- tine as a remedy for beestings (exter- nal application) on a number of per- sons besides myself, and even little children ; it gave immediate relief in every case, seeming to neutralize the effects of the poison
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. April 12, 1900. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 237 but if there are many colonies, look out for robbing. I have stopt the worst cases of rob- bing- I ever saw with a spray-pump and cold water, in a few minutes; but don't spare the water—give every colony that shows any excitement a good soak- ing at the entrance. _ Last season I used spirits of turpen- tine as a remedy for beestings (exter- nal application) on a number of per- sons besides myself, and even little children ; it gave immediate relief in every case, seeming to neutralize the effects of the poison, and not leaving the least sign of swelling. W. H. Lewis. British Columbia, Canada, Mar. 19. No Loss In Winteping. I put my bees out of the cellar March 25. I had put in 32 colonies, and car- ried out 32. To-day was a fine day, and they were just booming. Frank E. Knapp. Wadena Co., Minn., March 30. How I Came to Be a Bee-Keeper. About 13 years ago I was sick and miserable. In my neighborhood lived an old man, a bee-keeper by the name of Solomon Whitaker, and from him I took my first lessons in bee-keeping. He told me if I would get interested in bees that it would divert my mind from my sickness. He gave me a hive, and told me to put it up in a big tree down in his woods, which I did. I soon had the bee-fever, and had it hard, too. In a few days I saw bees flying in and out of my hive. Supposing of course I had caught a svrarm, I slipt up that tree very still, corkt up the en- trance, and let the hive to the ground with a rope. I took the hive home on my shoulder, with the fever running at its highest pitch. And oh, how dis- appointed I was the next morning, when I found I had only about a dozen bees ("tree-hunters" I afterwards found out). I then bought a colony from the old man, for which I paid $4. My attention was then turned toward hive-making. For tools I used a buck- saw and butcher-knife. Oh, weren't those hives and fixtures things of beauty ! Some were ta
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