Vol. XIII. 



NOV. 15, 1885. 



No. 22. 



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PUBI.1.SHED SEMI-MONTIII.Y BY 



A.I. ROOT, MEDINA, OHIO. lfh%'li"V.tf.!5tcpI?yekr"x".ra"'''°" "' 



OUR OWN APIARY. 



SIX HIVES KNOCKED OVER BY A RUNAWAY HORSE; 

 LATEST SPECIAL FROM THE SCENE OF ACTION. 



TTTOV. 6.— This afternoon, about 1:30 p. m., the 

 iBI new horse, " Mcgg" (the one that fills Nan- 

 Tm. ^^^ place), while on the outskirts of the api- 

 "*■ » ary took fright and started to run. Wheel- 

 ing abruptly about, she upset the wagon, 

 precipitating Messrs. Weed and Soiners violently to 

 the ground. Neither, however, were hurt. Kick- 

 ing furiously, she dragged the wagon half through 

 one of the apiaries, knocking over grapevines and 

 hives with a vengeance that was calculated to clear 

 the track of obstructions of any kind whatever. 

 The wagon becoming wedged among the hives and 

 grapevine trellises, she commenced kicking again, 

 until she had freed herself; but the thills still clung 

 to her as she dashed on. At this juncture I leisure- 

 ly made my way to the hives, for I am notoriously 

 slow sometimes. The horse was rapidly escaping 

 up the road, while her pursuer, having picked him- 

 self up, was laboriously plodding after. Meantime 

 the apiarist, who evidently did not relish this situa 

 tion, was doing his best to set things right side up, 

 screwing his face, as he did so, in a manner that be- 

 tokened pain, while with quick jerks he rubbed 

 from his hands the stings which 



THE INFURIATED BEES 



were inflicting. I soon was there with veil and 

 smoker; and not long after, the hives were at least 

 right side up. One was turned completely upside 

 down, and the other five were either thrown upon 

 the sides or pretty badly jammed, to say nothing of 

 broken frames. The colonies had already been 



packed for winter. After the mishap there was a 

 mixture of combs, chaff, and bees— the latter, of 

 course, boiling out like mad hornets. 



Nov. 10.— The hives are all put to rights now; the 

 wagon is repaired, and Megg, apparently uninjured, 

 draws the market wagon as before. 



Moral.— Be careful with high-spirited horses near 

 the apiary. 



LOOK OUT FOR SMALL BOYS. 



Once or twice we have been annoyed by having 

 the slates displaced, upon which the record of the 

 hives was kept. A little investigation showed that a 



SMALL BOY 



bearing the name of "Huber" had been there. 

 Even at this early ige he manifests quite a fondness 

 for busying himself among the hives. Whenever 

 he is missing, and the accustomed racket has bo- 

 come lulled, we invariably suspect mischief; so in 

 this case. He thought it rare fun to pull those 

 slates off the hives, and then pile them up in little 

 heaps, or scatter them in every direction. Taking 

 into consideration the number of imported queens 

 in the apiary, this might have been pretty expensive 

 business, had. not, fortunately, the apiarist already 

 marked these hives independently of the slates. 

 Otherwise we should have been in a " peck of troub- 

 le." 



PUTTING THE BEES INTO WINTER QUARTERS. 



In my remarks here I shall particularize how our 

 bees are put into winter quarters, for the benefit of 

 those who may wish to know just how we doit. I 

 therefore hope the veterans will excuse me if I 

 seem to indulge in a little repetition. 



As stated in a previous number, every colony we 

 have is packed iu chaff hives— each having five or 



