GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



bees on my head, uiuler the hat, in the spe- 

 cially constructed headgear, and then in my 

 ntiticial leg as shown. 1 often go about in 

 this way at fairs from six in the morning 

 until nine o'clock in the evening, 

 Chariton, la. 



[Mr. Riebel is certainly a genius in more 

 ways than one. He has made such a study 

 of beekeeping that he has published a small 

 book on the subject, "Hints in Bee C.il- 

 ture," which we find is very interesting. 

 We are sure our friend deserves a good 

 deal of credit for forging ahead as he has 

 done for thirty years in spite of so great a 

 handicap. — Ed.] 



BEE-VEILS AND BEE-VEILS 



BY ARTHUR C. MILLER 



A bee-veil is a necessity and a nuisance, 

 (illy some of them are more so. There ai'e 

 ahuost as many kinds of bee-veils as there 

 are beekeepers, but often none are to be 

 had when most wanted. 



First, there aie the ki; ds made out of 

 sundry yards of white mosquito netting, 

 hung in voluminous folds over a prehistoric 



A colony of bees in a wooden leg. 



cjire and attention; but I became so inter- 

 ested that ] read ami stutiied every thing 

 1 could find on bees. I was soon making 

 beekeeping a specialty, along with the man- 

 ufacture of artificial limbs for others; and 

 1 was all the time experimenting and mak- 

 ing observations. I had an observatory hive 

 in my work-shop, the bees going in and out 

 through tubes in the wall of the building; 

 and from my work-bench I have watched 

 them building comb, rearing brood, deposit- 

 ing honey, etc. During the last few years 

 1 have been giving some attention to the 

 uiatter of demonstrating beekeeping at 

 fairs; and I conceived the idea of having 

 bees in the hollow part of my artificial leg. 

 The various photographs show how I rig 

 n)yself up for fairs, and I can tell you that 

 I attract a lot of attention. I also make 

 c'emonstrations in a wire-cloth cage, and 1 

 have a good many different operations that 

 I go through with in order to explain vari- 

 ous parts of the business. For instance, I 

 explain how to take a colony out of a tree, 

 get the bees into a hive, etc, so that the 

 whole plan is perfectly clear, I often let 

 the bees sting me on the face all day, and 

 it has practically no effect. I have the 



Hiving the swarm in the very novel hive. 



