SKPTKMRKK in, 101). 



A beekeeper di-essed wholly in white is less tonspicuous than one dressed in black. 



used they are stretclied over the top of the 

 brush, and are fastened to the anchor logs. 

 They may be tied to the under wires Avith 

 baling wire. The posts should be sunk four 

 feet in the ground. Wliile the wire is being 

 stretched it is necessary to have braces from 

 the anchor-logs to the caps of the end bents. 

 One must be careful not to have the shed 

 too low. Twelve feet is wide enough. Eleven 

 feet is good, and leii feet will do. 



Tn this country we always build sheds 

 from east to west. Perhaps it is a little bet- 

 ter to slant them a little from southeast to 



northwest. The morning sun will not melt 

 down new combs, but the evening sun may. 

 All intermediate bents are built like the end 

 bents, except that they are of lighter mate- 

 rial, and are not set in the ground. 



This style of shed has one advantage that 

 I have never seen noted in print. Few bees 

 fly through the shed. Bees going beliind 

 their hives fly over the shed. It is often 

 hard to make strangers understand that 

 they are safer between the hives than they 

 are a few yards in fi-ont of them. 



Parker, Ariz. 



DO BEES DISLIKE BLACK ? 



BY JOHN H. LOVELL 



The world itself is not wider than the 

 l)elief that angry bees will sting black soon- 

 er than white. The otiier day in an old 

 number of Gleanings I found Mr. Louis 

 H. Seholl saying: "Our experience teacjies 

 us to wear lighter-colored apparel with a 

 good veil, and thus prevent stirring up the 

 ire of the busy little Avorkers who make foi' 

 us a living, instead of allowing them to kill 

 themselves uselessly on any thing they do 

 not like." From the antipodes of South 

 Africa a few weeks ago came the exceeding- 

 Iv interesting and convincing account of 



Mr. W. G. Davis, describing how in the 

 Transvaal bees on the rampage attacked 

 and killed domestic animals which were 

 wholly or partially black, while .the lighter- 

 colored ones escaped with only a few stings. 

 When he wore lighter-colored clothing him- 

 self the bees troubled him very little. To 

 the query, " Why do bees sting black? " he 

 replies that it is because it is foreign to 

 them. '' There are no black flowers for the 

 liees to work on, and black is, consequently, 

 foreign to them ; while, on the other liand, 

 there are plenty of yellow and white flowei's 



