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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15. 



road ; and the year that we produced such a 

 large crop of honey, the barrels of extracted 

 were put on the car, run out to the roadway, 

 and rolled from the car on to the wagon. The 

 scheme worked very nicely. There were also 

 times when the extractor was put on the car, 

 and the honey was extracted from the combs 

 almost as soon as they were taken from the 

 hive. Thus many steps, and the caiting of 

 many combs to and fro, were saved. — Ed.] 



WHICH IS MIGHTIER, THE BEE OR THE BULL? 



The Advantage of the "Kick Method " of 

 Taking off Supers. 



BY HARRY S. HOWE. 



One day recentl) , Mr. W. L. Coggshall 

 started on one of his regular "bee-expedi- 

 tions." When he left home he declared his 

 intention of seeing the Varna yard; but the 

 fates willed it otherwise, for on the way he 



owner of the farm, which is about one and a 

 half miles from Cornell University, uses it for 

 pasture. All of the fences and buildings have 

 long since gone out of business. When La 

 Mar got to where the buildings used to stand 

 he turned Dandy loose and started for the 

 bee-house. A large bull that was pasturing 

 there also started in the same direction, and 

 then the circus began. 



Niver thinks the trouble was all caused by 

 La Mar's reading so much of the Spanish way 

 of doing that he wanted to have a bull-fight 

 of his own. Others incline to the theory that 

 some one had dropped a " yellow journal " in 

 the pasture, and that the bull was the one 

 who was affected by so much war news. Be 

 the cause what it maj', the bull soon began to 

 make up faces, and to kick up the grass. 

 Then he raised up his voice and began to ut- 

 ter the most " terrorable " threats. La Mar 

 says that this particular fellow had the loud- 

 est voice he ever heard. But then. La Mar is 

 not a good judge of music; and, besides, he 





THE MAN, THE BEES, AND THE BULL. 



decided to go to the Ellis yard. Here again 

 the hand of fate made itself manifest. Seeing 

 some wintergreen by the side of the road on 

 the way through Ringwood, he stopped to get 

 some, a proceeding to which Dandy, the colt, 

 objected. When La Mar went to get into the 

 buggy, Dandy promptly turned around and 

 tipped the whole outfit over. La Mar, with 

 equal promptness, tipped it back again and 

 proceeded to munch his wintergreen. As a 

 result of the upset, or perhaps in spite of it, 

 he again changed his route, wath the result of 

 landing at the Forest Home yard. This yard 

 is situated in an orchard, on one corner of a 

 partially abandoned farm. To get to it he 

 had to ford a large creek, and then go quite a 

 way to where the bees were. The present 



was pretty busy thinking how long he might 

 have to stay if he got " treed," and in remem- 

 bering that he always got nervous when he 

 was up so high. 



The "other fellow," about this time, got 

 his feelings up to the point where he could 

 not keep his feet all on the ground at once, 

 and his voice, from its nearness, sounded as 

 though he had got a fog-horn stuck in his 

 throat. Another point that La Mar began to 

 notice rather plainly was that the bull's breath 

 was not particularly sweet, and that his eyes 

 were rather blood-shot. Not wishing to offend 

 his visitor, but still wishing to be alone with 

 his thoughts. La Mar, like the Irishman in the 

 story, tried various hints, none of which the 

 bull seemed to think were intended for him. 



