1886 



gleani:ngs in bee cultuue. 



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and the different envelopes, the Avound lieal- 

 ing np as the needle passed through until it 

 got out head tirst. 



Xow, then, dear reader, do you not agree 

 with David when he says, " I am fearfully 

 and wonderfully made "V Who is this or 

 what is this law that has been all these ages 

 working for the good of these physical 

 bodies, and yet we do not know itV Truly 

 can we say, " JNIarvelous are thy works." As 

 I sat down to write this paper this morning 

 it seemed to me more marvelous than any 

 thing I have before witnessed in this won- 

 derful world of ours, to think tliat, even in- 

 side of our lingers and toes, a teeming throng 

 were constantly planning and working for 

 our best physical welfare. No wonder that 

 Paul said, "Ye are the temples of the Holy 

 Ghost;" and that, '■ If our earthly house of 

 this tal)ernacle were dissolved, we have a 

 building of God. a house not made with 

 hands, eternal in the heavens." 



DO BEES HEAR TIN PANS? 



WHY IS IT THAT BEES SELDOM ATTACK BABIES? 



R ROOT:— Youl' article in Gleanings about 

 bees hearing-, makes mamina rcmcmlicr 

 that, when she was a little girl, she lived 

 next door to a lady who kept bees. This 

 was in tho suburbs cf Hull, England. 

 Every day during' the spring she would hear a bell 

 ring in the yard of the next house. She asked 

 grandma what the lady rang the bell every morn- 

 ing for; and for answer, grandma brought a chair 

 and set it near the hedge fence and lifted my mam- 

 ma upon the chair and told her to look into the 

 yard. Mamma can distinctly remember seeing a 

 woman standing among a lot of boxes, and she had 

 a tabic near her with a pan and bell upon it, and 

 the air was full of " Hies," at least so she thought 

 (she was not 6 years old then); but grandma told 

 her that the woman rang the bell to call the bees to 

 their feed. Mamma was then afraid of bees. She 

 never went into Iho bee yard, but grandma often 

 did, because, when ahe was a little girl, she had 

 lived with an aunt in France, who kept bers, and 

 she had got accustomed to them. 



a mischievous babv. 

 I had a little brother, lo months old, who was not 

 afraid of bees. One day mamma went to town and 

 loft him in papa's care; and not being used to 

 caring for babies, papa forgot him until he heard 

 him laughing very heartily. He then went to 

 where the sound was, and found Franky on his 

 knees, with both hands over the entrance of the 

 hive, and the bees were swarming over and around 

 him; and as they would alight on his hands he 

 would laugh very roguishli'. Papa was so fiight- 

 ened he tried to coax Franky away, but he would on- 

 ly laugh, and shake his head; so papa ran quick and 

 caught him up and ran into the house. They stung 

 papa, but did not. hurt rranky:nt all. Papa put up 

 high boards all around the hives, but the little 

 rogue would try to got to the bees cver^' time he 

 could got away. 



The bees here ia Calitornia arc doing well, and, 

 judging by other Avet years, it will be an excellent 

 honey year. One of papa's hives gave him a very 

 large swarm last week, and the surplus box which 



had been left on was full of brood, with the excep- 

 tion of two cards. After they were cut from the 

 frames they weighed 13 lbs. This was made from 

 the alfalfa, and papa says it is as good as clover 

 honey made in the east. Lewis Hilton. 



Los Alamos, Cal , April 2fi, 1880. 



Thank you, little friend, for the article 

 you have given us. As to whethe<r bees 

 hear the drumming of tin pans, see what is 

 said in another column. I can just imagine 

 your little brother, full of roguish chuckle, 

 stopping up the entrance to the hive with 

 his chubby hands. It is a little strange, 

 sometimes, that bees do not attack these 

 little innocents. When Blue Eyes and Caddie 

 were little, although they were among the 

 bees considerably I do not remember that 

 they were stung more than once, and I 

 think this was caused by the bee gf^tting un- 

 der the clothing and then afterward pinch- 

 ed. I think one sting is all Iluber has had 

 so far. My mother told me that she found 

 me, when I was about a year old, poking my 

 head clear down into a hive of bees— the 

 first colony that A. I. Root ever owned; yet 

 I was not stung. Why is it, do you suppose, 

 babies are not attacked more often by bees? 

 Well, I think it is because the child is whol- 

 ly unconscious of the danger he is in, and 

 therefore does not show any signs of ner- 

 vousness. Few things will induce bees to 

 sting quicker than the twitching of the face, 

 or nervous motion of the hands and arms. 

 A child never does this, because he is 

 not afraid, and for the very good reason 

 that he does not know enough to be scared. 

 If a grown person can control his nerves the 

 bees will treat him as kindly as they do the 

 baby. In fact, I think with most colonies 

 in our apiary I could stand in front of a hive 

 and close its entrance Avith my hands, and 

 the bees would make no attempt to sting; 

 yet a person unaccustomed to bees would be 

 almost sure to be stung. Ernest. 



BEE-KEEPING IN WYOMING TERRI- 

 TORY. 



E take Gleanings, and are delighted with 

 it. We can hardly understand how you 

 can give so much for so little money. We 

 have the first and only honey-bees in 

 Wyoming Territory, and we were afraid 

 they would not do well in this new country; but 

 thoy gather lots of surplus honey from the wild 

 prairie and mountain flowers, and it is very white, 

 and fine flavored, and the bees stand the winters 

 here as well as in the States. 



I live in a beautiful valley, through which courses 

 a large cool mountain stream in which are fish, 

 wild fowls, and the cunning braver; and on all 

 sides the grand old mountains rear their peaks of 

 snow above the clouds. I wish you were here to 

 view the fine scenery, and enjoy the bracing, 

 healthy air of these high solitudes. In the mount- 

 ains are found nearly all kinds of large and small 

 game, such as elk, deer, antelope, bear, mountain 

 sheep, sage grouse, jack rabbits, badgers, wolves, 

 mountain lions, etc. 



My pa has a large collection of all kinds of min- 

 erals and curiosities cf the Rocky Mountains. 



JosTK Mead, age 12, 

 Ferris, Carbon Co,, Wyoming, March, 1886, 



