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trance darkened during the day. Adjust 

 all entrances to about four inches, or 

 less if that much is not needed for free 

 passage of the bees in and out. 2. Not 

 in my own apiary. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



1 and 2. I have never had such an ex- 

 perience, and can't imagine how such a 

 state of things should arise. In such 

 case, I should either kill the whole col- 

 ony, or re-queen it.— J. E. Pond. 



1. I'd keep out of their reach, and 

 send the children in the house. A big 

 smudge might help. 2. No. Something 

 is wrong somewhere when such a state 

 of affairs exists. — Eugene Secor. 



1. Stop "careless handling;" guard 

 against " accidents ;" look out for the 

 "otherwise;" feed each colony late in 

 the evening — if their pasture is very 

 poor. 2. Not in any well managed api- 

 ary. — J. P. H. Brown. 



1. I would get everything out of 

 " sight" as rapidly as I could until the 

 bees cooled down. 2. Yes; it was caused 

 by the jarring of the earth made by the 

 use of a road scraper in the neighbor- 

 hood of the apiary. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. I should use the smoker and the 

 fountain pump the best I knew how. If 

 salty water is used in the pump, it will 

 help to secure quiet. Of course the best 

 plan is not to provoke such a condition 

 of things by carelessness. 2. Yes. — 

 Emekson T. Abbott. 



1. Keep away from them as far as 

 possible, until they get over it. Use 

 plenty of smoke. Find out if possible 

 which colonies are doing the stinging — 

 usually there are not many — and see 

 that they are subdued. 2. To a limited 

 extent. — J. A. Green. 



As I have never known bees to get 

 that way, I am of the mind to answer as 

 the young physician did on examination : 

 " What would you first do in case a 

 man had been blown up by an explo- 

 sion ?" He replied, "Would wait until 

 he came down." — J as. A. Stone. 



1. If near night let them severely 

 alone, and after it has become dusk, and 

 they have quieted down — remedy the 

 cause. If early in the day, I would con- 

 tract entrances to every hive, and in- 

 troduce a little " feed " into the inside of 

 the disturbed colonies ; if necessary, 

 cover them up entirely. — W. M.Barnum. 



1. Prevention is better than a cure, 

 but if the thing has happened, and they 

 are endangering the lives of animals 

 and folks, terrify them with smoke. 

 They will respect this when they will 

 nothing else. Get so much smoke 



around them that they can't recognize 

 themselves or the hives. A bee is not 

 likely to sting unless it does it soon after 

 leaving the hive. 2. Yes, I have known 

 it, and known of it to such an extent 

 that it would be hard for me to fix the 

 distance from dwelling-houses and high- 

 ways at which it would be absolutely 

 safe to establish large apiaries. — S. I. 

 Freeborn. 



1. An ounce of prevention is W9rth 

 more than a pound of cure in such case, 

 but as such a condition may happen, it 

 is well to consider what is best to do. I 

 should lose no time in getting the 

 smoker going, and give every colony 

 showing unusual activity a good dose of 

 smoke. 2. No. — C. H. Dibbern. 



1. Leave them entirely alone for a 

 few days until they forget the cause of 

 their irritation. Then handle them gen- 

 tly until they get all right. 2. Yes, 

 nearly every season my bees, or rather 

 a part of them, at times, get cross and 

 handle badly. But in a general way I 

 have no trouble with them. — G. W. Dem- 

 arke. 



I would let them get over their excite- 

 ment by keeping all sweets out of their 

 reach about the apiary. It is never safe 

 in a large apiary to leave honey exposed 

 except during a good honey-flow. To 

 stop their stinging, smoke each hive 

 with tobacco smoke just before dusk. 2. 

 I have had them to sting everything in 

 sight, but tobacco quieted them.— G. L. 

 Tinker. 



1. I would begin at once to handle in 

 a careful way, using smoke so as to keep 

 the bees always subdued. I would never 

 leave a colony I was working with until 

 it was thoroughly subdued. I would 

 then re-queen as soon as possible with 

 gentle Italian queens. 2. Yes, I have 

 known bees to become so cross from bad 

 handling that they drove everything to 

 shelter. — B. Taylor. 



1. I would light the smoker, and go 

 into them and right all wrongs as quickly 

 as possible. In case of accident, clear 

 things up quicker, and let them' quiet 

 down. 2. I have many times had acci- 

 dents—hives bursted, etc., also bad 

 cases of robbing by bad management 

 but I have always as yet managed them'. 

 I know it tries one's patience in such 

 cases, but I think we should always try 

 to remedy the evil in as quiet manner as 

 possible.— Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



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