1910 



(ILEANINdS IN BEE CULTURE 



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FIG. 1. — CUTTING OATS C'J,<)SK T( » A.N APIAKV. 

 The flight of the bees, on a line with the top of the fence, encountered the revolving reel of the binder. 



BEES ATTACKING A SELF-BINDER RIG. 



Some Experience at The Root Company's North 

 Yard. 



BY E. R. ROOT. 



A few days ago we received a telephone 

 message from a farmer, saying that our bees 

 were attacking his man and horses operat- 

 ing a self-binder that was cutting the grain 

 next to our line fence. We sent a man 

 down, and found, true enough, that the bees 

 going to and from the yard were attacking 

 both man and horses. There had been a 

 little rain the night before, and the nectar 



secretion had stopped. Apparently the bees 

 had gone to the fields as usual, and, not 

 finding any thing, returned to the yard not 

 in the best of humor. As the self-binder 

 approached the line fence next to the bees 

 the revolving armsof the binder-reel through 

 the mass of flying bees seemed to infuriate 

 them. While they did not attack the horses 

 enough to make any serious trouble, their 

 owner, a good friend of ours, thought best 

 to notify us, as we had told him that any 

 time he had trouble we would come down if 

 he would let us know. 



The bees had already stung the driver 

 and the horses; but so far he was handling 

 them without assistance. After looking 



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Kig. 2.— Hear view of the binder and horses, the latter wearing blankets to protect them from stings. 



