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July S, 1900. 



pect to go on the principle that what 

 cannot be cured -svill have to be en- 

 dured. I would be pleased to see in- 

 structions or a discussion of the situa- 

 tion in American Bee Journal. If 

 there are precautions we can be gov- 

 erned by them in case of overstocking, 

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Tulare Co., Calif., July 20. 



Sunshine for Driving Out Moths. 



Bees wintered well in this section, 

 and are storing a good deal of honey. 

 There is an abundance of white clover. 

 Yesterday, in cleaning up some old 

 hives with comb where bees had died 

 during the winter, I held the comb up 

 in the doorway towards the sun, look- 

 ing for moths; the bright sun drove 

 them from their hiding places, and 

 they crawled out on the outside where 

 I could brush them ofi'. From one 

 comb where at first I only saw a few 

 moths the sun drove out a score or 

 more. I don't remember seeing this 

 method of finding moths mentioned 

 before, and thought it might be useful 

 to some of the readers of the American 

 Bee Journal. J. Ridi.Ey. 



Winnesheik Co., Iowa, June 21. 



Some Experiences with Bees 

 Stinging. 



Reading the article on page 147, and 

 again on page 395, about bees sting- 

 ing, I will relate some of my experi- 

 ences : 



About the year 1809 or 1870, in the 

 wild blackberry season I visited an old 

 soldier friend in Crawford Co., Wis. I 

 owned and drove to this friend's a mule 

 team. My friend had no hay at that 

 time of year, but feed being good in 

 the yards we picketed the mules over 

 night in the door-yard, a place of a 

 half acre, more or less. In the morn- 

 ing I moved the mules, which brought 

 one of them close to two colonies of 

 bees kept in box-hives, never dreaming 

 of any trouble from them. We all 

 went into the woods berrying, return- 

 ing about 11 a.m. We were picking 

 over some of the berries for dinner, 

 when a boy a dozen years old sitting 

 in the door, after looking very steadily 

 in the direction of the mules, said very 

 slowly, "Mr. — , I — guess— the — bees — 

 are — stinging — your — mules." Being 

 quite warm I vras in my shirt sleeves, 

 also hatless, I ran out. The mule 

 nearest the hives was literally covered 

 with bees. She was kicking, rolling, 

 pawing, and getting into worse shapes 

 than any mule I ever saw inside of a 

 circus ring. Of course I went to her 

 assistance at once, hatless and coat- 

 less. I had all I could do to keep out of 

 her way, for she was wild by this time. 

 The bees fell upon me — not by the 

 dozen but by the hundreds — yes, I 

 think thousands, for both colonies 

 were out in full force. 



My friend was out, too, but was un- 

 able to assist me for a few moments. 

 They stung me over my body, hands, 

 head and face. When I could get a 

 chance I ground up what were on my 

 head, but finally I got the mule loose 

 in some way, and started for a corn- 

 field near at hand. By hard work I 

 soon got rid of what were following 

 me. 



As soon as I was away with the mule 

 they all pitcht upon the other one, 

 which was a little further ofl'. My 



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friend saw a broad-ax lying near, and 

 he severed the rope and let her free. 

 Then the dog, a calf, and all the people 

 near, had to take a look for protection 

 for about 20 minutes, when all was 

 quiet again. 



I don't know how many stings I had, 

 but I think not less than 100. 



The first mule had more than five 

 times this number. Not knowing what 

 to do I bathed my head and face, and 

 also the mule, with kerosene oil, and 

 that evening drove home a distance of 

 12 miles — and in a couple of days we 

 were no worse for the experience. 



I bought a half dozen colonies of 

 bees in 1895, and put them out in the 

 spring 30 feet from the kitchen door, 

 and one rod from the driveway, where 

 I drove my team every day. I never 

 had but one sting from being so near, 

 and only one on a horse. I was driv- 

 ing in one day when a bee, dropping 

 down while hard at work, struck the 

 horse just over the eye, and not getting 

 free, of course left its stinger in the 

 horse's flesh, which he objected to 

 very much. This was all the trouble 

 we had that year. The next year, just 

 in swarming-time, an old gentleman 

 of 70. and his wife, past my place in a 

 lumber wagon ; the road was about 70 

 feet from the nearest hives, and a 

 swarm of bees were in the air right in 

 or over the road. There was no one at 

 the house or nearer than 40 or 50 rods 

 from the apiary. The old people did 

 not notice, or did not think, and drove 

 right into the swarm. Just as soon as 

 the bees began to sting the horses they 

 would not move, and they attackt the 

 people also. The women gave the cry 

 of -alarm, and soon brought to their as- 

 sistance two men who were plowing 

 corn some SO rods away. The old peo- 

 ple had abandoned the team, and re- 

 treated to a safe distance. The horses 

 had laid down and were still down 

 when help arrived. The two men went 

 to work bare handed, without veil, un- 

 hitcht and took the horses to a house 

 one-half mile away, and bathed the 

 horses for two hours with alcohol se- 

 cured from a town three miles away. 



The horses came out all right after 

 about three month's roving in the 

 pasture, but the top of their ears came 

 off. 



I keep now from 12 to 20 colonies of 

 bees right along in a little lot of H 

 acre. I have a cow which is pastured 

 in this lot ; she eats the grass around 

 the hives just the same as tho they 

 were stumps. I have noticed her feed- 

 ing, standing right in front of two or 

 three hives, switching her tail, and 

 loaded bees coming in and the naughty 

 cow standing right in the way of their 

 getting into the hive. I never saw but 

 one bee sting her; that time she kickt 

 up her heels and ran into the barn, as 

 the door stands open. I don't feel any 

 alarm for her safety, for should she 

 trouble them too much and they should 

 resent it, she has a safe retreat. 



I believe that bees get used to stock 

 if they are kept around them. I re- 

 member years ago, when I knew noth- 

 ing of bees — only that they had sting- 

 ers and stored honey — that I could not 

 go among them two minutes before a 

 bee was after me. Now I work among 

 my bees, often hatless, and very sel- 

 dom have any trouble. I like to work 

 with them, but we have so much 

 trouble of late getting any clover to- 

 stay by us, and the basswood is being- 



