Gleanings in bee culture . Having pounced upon the cause of allthe roar and hubbub, grasp her with fingerand thumb by the thorax as though youmeant to clip her. I always clip mine, ifneeding it, at the same time as branding,and with the bottle-neck curled tight in thelittle finger of the same hand draw the corkwith the other hand and apply a fairlyliberal dose of the liquid paint on top ofher thorax, and a little on the end half ofthe wing left undipped. One would thinkthat any bee, black or yellow, carrying adab of bright yellow paint on her thoraxnearly an eighth of an inch square wouldbe se
Gleanings in bee culture . Having pounced upon the cause of allthe roar and hubbub, grasp her with fingerand thumb by the thorax as though youmeant to clip her. I always clip mine, ifneeding it, at the same time as branding,and with the bottle-neck curled tight in thelittle finger of the same hand draw the corkwith the other hand and apply a fairlyliberal dose of the liquid paint on top ofher thorax, and a little on the end half ofthe wing left undipped. One would thinkthat any bee, black or yellow, carrying adab of bright yellow paint on her thoraxnearly an eighth of an inch square wouldbe seen at once on the most crowded frame;but let madame jam herself between thecomb and bottom-bar, and she may hidethere all day before you see her; but thecolored wing seems to show up directly. Any way, after branding my first twentyon the thorax only, a weeks heavy weatherfollowed; and going over them to test thenew adventure, and to count the supersed-ings, I found none of the latter, and all too GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Fig. -Dauielsons International auto-wagon, loaded ready for a trip to an outyard. few of the branded queens—that is to say,without more searching than I had thoughtwould be needed. So I put some moreon, and this time on the end of the wing-as explained above, and, presto ! she couldnot be hid. It was a bit of fun to watchthe frantic efforts of first the queen andthen the bees trying to make mother lookless dudish. The queens antics remind-ed me of a rooster paying court to a hen,dropping one wing and sweeping the ground ^ .>i 51 k. 1 J teiiS m »?/- 2 J ??-35 iw 1 *!! ~ w \ ? / ^ \ 1 I L. J >^ i - ? • V ii 1^ K» .-.* , — Fig. 3.—The same truck shown in Fig. 2 transformed into a pleasurc-i-ai- with it. She tried and tried for fully aquarter of an hour between the sweepingbusiness and fanning to try to unburdenherself of this unusual encumbrance. How-ever, three weeks after, they had all grownused to having em all on. Now, the greatest surpris
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