GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Pig. 5. — A large garage makes a fine workshop. 



friend and neighbor, W. H. Yarwood, Jr., 

 into my confidence; and after ex^Dlaining to 

 him that there was undoubtedly just "scads" 

 of honey, and that the bees could not sting 

 through more than two inches of clothing, 

 he agreed to see me through. 



We arose at an early hour; and after a 

 drive of about eight miles we unloaded the 

 tools, which consisted of a smoker, Uvo bee- 

 veils, a steel bar, a rock-hammer, and a box 

 for the bees. After 

 donning the armor 

 and firing up the 

 smoker we built a 

 platform of loose 

 stone at the base of 

 the cliff. 



Upon examining 

 the cavity we could 

 see comb and bees a 

 short distance within, 

 and found that the 

 rock was seamed and 

 could be broken away 

 quite easily. We gave 

 them a few jDuffs of 

 smoke, just to let 

 them know that we 

 were there, and at- 

 tacked the rock with 

 bar and hammer vig- 

 orously for a few 

 moments, laying bare 

 a part of the nest. 

 A stiff breeze was 

 blowing directly 

 asrainst the face of 



I lie cliff, and no bees were flying; neither 

 did they rush out when we smoked them. 

 After we reached the nest we cut out the 

 combs and brood with a pocket-knife. The 

 brood we fitted into frames in the box, and 

 shook part of the bees on to the frames 

 from the combs as we cut them out. The 

 honey we put into a five-gallon gasoline-can 

 as fast as we took it out. 



After the comb had been removed we 



I ad of honey. 



