450 BOARD OF AORICULTURE. 



Mr. Cotion. I understood Prof. Wiley to say, when the bee becomes excited it 

 dropped this formic acid on the honey. 



Mr. Leming. Prof. Wiley said that if the honey was about to spoil formic acid 

 would preserve the honey. 



Mr. Scholl. Do I understand that the sting is inserted by a weaving motion ? 

 We used to think it was by a direct thrust. 



Mr. Verne. It is a little of both. 



Mr. Scholl. We can be stung sometimes by a bee and forget it in a moment, 

 and there are times when one may receive a sting that is troublesome, and almost 

 dangerous. I have seen children stung with bees that their life was really in 

 danger. According to this, if that sting is allowed to work deeper it is that much 

 more poisonous. 



Mr. Muth. We learn that the sting consists of two parts, each of which has a 

 purpose, and works in from one side to the other, and these barbs stick, and from 

 the point of each little barb there is a little poison works its way in as it goes, and 

 until the poison sac is exhausted it adds more poison. This tells us that we should 

 try and get that sting out as soon as possible. If you get hold of the sting to pull 

 it out, you squeeze the poison in the wound and make it worse. The sting should 

 be rubbed off, not pulled out. 



Mr. Cox. Stings give greater pain in different parts of the body. 



Secretary Daugheriy. The closer to a vein, the worse the effect. A bee will 

 sting when it is almost dead, laying it on and working until it makes an entrance 

 to the hilt. 



Prof. Troop, of Purdue University. Not only after the bee is almost dead, but I 

 have experienced the fact after the bee had been dead twenty-four hours. 



Mr. Andersmi. In cold weather they don't sting so bad as in warm weather. 

 The energy of the bee has something to do with it. I have been stung one hundred 

 times in an hour in cold weather, and experienced no trouble, but in warm weather 

 it would give pain. 



Mr. Leming. There is another thing in connection with this which causes the 

 sting to be more poisonous. A person stung, if he becomes enraged and pulls at 

 the sting, more of the poison is carried in and makes it worse. We should keep 

 quiet. 



Mr. Scholl. Does drawing the sting from the bee cause certain death to the bee? 

 Some deny this. 



Mr. Verne. 1 have tried this on one or two. After putting them in a close case 

 they were dead the next morning. It is not immediate death. The tearing out of 

 a portion of the abdominal tissue causes death. 



Mr. Anderson. It is impossible to get anything to penetrate the wound made 

 by the sting. I want to know if it is possible to suck the poison out and thus 

 avoid any serious effect. 



Mr. Pope. A strong decoction of lobelia will take all the poison out and you 

 won't feel it. 



Secretary Daugheity. One thing will affect one and not another. It depends 

 very much upon the condition of the system as to an antidote. Some simple rem- 

 edy will sometimes take it out. 



