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AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



March 22, 1900. 



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remonstrated, but we promist to take 

 pood care of her jar. 



So with hive, smoker and jar, we 

 started for the stump to domesticate 

 the bumble-bees. 



The family dog. Pug-, offered his as- 

 sistance. After some consideration it 

 was decided to let him go along. 



Now when Pug was a mere pup some 

 cruel person had cut his ears off, and 

 bobbed his tail, so what tail he had left 

 wasn't more than an inch long. 



On arriving at the .stump we placed 

 the mouth of the jar over the hole to 

 catch and hold the bees so that we 

 could work to a better advantage in 

 transferring. 



Now the work began in real earnest. 

 With club and stick we drummed on 

 the stump, and to our ^appy surprise 

 quite a goodly number of enraged bum- 

 ble-bees came into the jar. The drutn- 

 ming and loud buzzing of the bees in 

 the jar excited Pug's curiosity, so he 

 began to render his assistance by ex- 

 ercising his vocal organs to their full- 

 est extent. But by accident we over- 

 turned the jar. Falling to the ground 

 it was broken in pieces. Of course this 

 releast the enraged bees. Without hes- 

 itation brother and I fled foi safety. 

 Pug seeing our retreat quickly took in 

 the situation. Unfortunate for him, 

 one of the enraged bees fastened itself 

 on the stump of his tail. With a howl 

 he set off for the house. In at the door 

 he went, turning over one or more 

 chairs, upsetting the center table and 

 throwing the Bible to the floor, and 

 scattering other literature promiscu- 

 ously. In a few minutes father came 

 to the door, and said, " Boys, come 

 over to the house a few minutes, 

 please." 



After explaining the matte;r from 

 start to finish, and receiving some good 

 advice, I was convinced that to domes- 

 ticate the bumble-bee, so as to make it 

 profitable, might take considerable 

 time and ability. 



But there is a sense in which the 

 bumble-bee. when provoked to anger, 

 is real business, and Pug ever after- 

 ward remembered it. 



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On pages 54 and S5 Dr. C. C. Miller 

 answered questions concerning the 

 domestication of the bumble-bee. Now, 

 if of sufficient interest yet, I will relate 

 what I know about it. 



When a boy I tried my hand at it, 

 and I was quite successful in hiving 

 the bumble-bees, as also in removing 

 them from their original location to a 

 small shed purposely prepared for 

 them. I have had as many as 20 colo- 

 nies in one season, and nearly all of 

 them of different markings, size and 

 temper. I made hives of clay, suffi- 

 ciently large to provide room for their 

 nest. At night, I took their nest, with 

 the surrounding bedding of dry grass 

 and moss, and placed it on a board, 

 and then I put over it my clay hive, 

 and left it on the original location for 

 a few days. The bumble-bees were not 

 slow in adopting their new surround- 

 ings, and, after removal, they carried 

 on their business all right. 



The variety of the bumble-bees in 

 northern Germany is very great, as 

 well respecting their color and mark- 

 ings, as the size of the different 

 species. They also vary perceptibly 

 in the quantity of honey they gather. 



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