JUNE 15, 1916 



You start for home the proud possessor of ten or fifteen thousand worker bees and an 

 Italian queen. Your children try to look thru the wire screen to see if they can find the 

 queen. They do not know that the queen would not be fooling around on that wire cloth. 

 You feel a little like running all the way home; but you reflect that it would look better to 

 walk quietly, and then, any way, probably it would be better for the bees not to be jolted 

 any more than they have already been. 



Eemember that it is not a good plan to locate the hive with the entrance facing a 

 sidewalk, path, driveway, or any other thorofare. It may look pretty and all that, and 

 you niay like to stand in the path and watch the bees coming and going; but the bees don't 

 like to have people walking in front of their hive, interfering with their line of flight. 

 It makes them cross and irritable. The entrance should face away from any thorofare, and 

 nothing should be allowed to obstruct the front of the hive, whether it be a tree, shrub, or 

 even tall grass and weeds. 



