. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. T ;e (i)ee-jAeepeps A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Interests of Hoqey Producers. $K00 A YFAR. W. Z, HDTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. e VOL Xil FLINT. MICHIGAN, MARCH 10, 1899. NO 3. KEEPING BEES GOOD NATURED. The Parts Played by Dress, Smoke and Man- agement. T. F. n .wise, het-ii requested to state my ideas for niaiia<i;inj< an api- ary in sucli a man- ner as to enable bees to be kept in tO'.\ villaj^es w i t li o u I c o m - ])1 lint, 1 may be allowed to say tliai the field is too wide for an article from a ver}- busy bee-ke
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. T ;e (i)ee-jAeepeps A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to tlqe Interests of Hoqey Producers. $K00 A YFAR. W. Z, HDTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor. e VOL Xil FLINT. MICHIGAN, MARCH 10, 1899. NO 3. KEEPING BEES GOOD NATURED. The Parts Played by Dress, Smoke and Man- agement. T. F. n .wise, het-ii requested to state my ideas for niaiia<i;inj< an api- ary in sucli a man- ner as to enable bees to be kept in tO'.\ villaj^es w i t li o u I c o m - ])1 lint, 1 may be allowed to say tliai the field is too wide for an article from a ver}- busy bee-keeper. The first object, of course, is to allow the bees to be good nalured and happy. This is on the presum])tion that bees are naturally happy. There is, however, a wide, untamed suspicion among bees that people strolling aimlessly about their hives need watching. To do this, perhaps unnecessary police duty, a few bees seem always on the look out for flowing hair or wool hats. Knowing that these two features are unpleasant to them, we, of cdirse, will not wear wool hats; instead, we will wear a hat having a cape of cheese cloth falling over our neck and shoulders in such a manner as will prevent the bees from getting tangled in our back hair. This cape may be open in the face, or it may be covered with fine silk netting— never wire. Such a hat may hang where it will be handy to put on. It does not assume to keep one absolutely safe from cross bees, but it will do much to keep them good natured and out of one's hair. It is probable that any bee once render- ed malicious will forever remain so; for this reason no one should ever go into an apiary without the above precautions, and, farther, a reliable smoker. Oh yes, now you have got in a little smoker ad ! Well, I don't see how I can provide any other plan by which inquisitive bees can be kept from looking at those beautiful blue eyes through the opening in the cape about your hat; and lingering with justi- fiable curiosity a
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