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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 1 



in her kitchen, than they would be if they 

 had not been permitted to help themselves 

 in a wholesale way to the exposed combs. 



All things considered, and especially for 

 beginners, it is best to let the bees clean 

 things up over a colony. Better have a lit- 

 tle honey stored back in the cells than to 

 have the whole apiary ready to seize <^-\ any 

 sweet at an instant's notice. — Ed.] 



DO CATTLE LEARN TO KEEP AWAY FROM 

 BEES? A BEE-AND-STEER STORY. 



Mr. Root: — I can not quite agree with you 

 in what you say on page 32 of horses and 

 cattle not learning to keep away from bees. 

 If the pasture is large enough, and stock is 

 not tied, they soon learn to stay away. I 

 moved last spring to a new place, and put 

 80 colonies of bees in a ten-acre field which 

 I also used as a pasture for a mare. Now, 

 that very beeyai'd seemed the most favored 

 place for the mare. It was the first place in 

 the morning, after she was turned out of the 

 stable, and the last in the evening. She 

 would go in and out among the hives, eating 

 grass, and paying no attention to bees as 

 long as they would not Hy too strong: but 

 let one l^ee sting her. or get tangled up in 

 her mane, you could soon see her at the far 

 end of the pasture. A mule might be fool 



enough to stay and kick. I hail once a swarm 

 settle on a tall tree in my neighbor's yard. 

 There were six steers and' two calves in the 

 lot. I had to climb the tree, saw the limb 

 off, and let them down on a rope. No soon- 

 er did the limb get near the ground than the 

 steers and calves took a notion for green 

 leaves, and, in spite of all I could do from 

 above to scare them away, they crowded 

 around the limb, eating leaves and shaking 

 part of the swai'm off. My bees are mostly 

 a very cross hybrid; and as I was expecting 

 to see a bull-fight any minute I stayed where 

 I was, up in the tree; but, to my disappoint- 

 ment, all the steers would do was to switch 

 their tails and eat leaves, and shake more 

 bees off; but not so with the calves. After 

 bawling, and circling around the arena sev- 

 eral times, and drawing more l^ees every 

 round, they made a landing in the hen-house, 

 and had sense enough to stay there until I 

 came down and hived my swarm. 

 Bard, Ark. Aiken Sayer. 



[No doubt you are right that horses will 

 learn hy experience to keep away from bees 

 when they get too numerous in the air; but, 

 as advised on page 32, I think we bee-keep- 

 ers had better assume that they may not do 

 so, and err on the safe side. — Ed.1 



OFFICERS AND EX- OFFICERS OF THE ONTARIO CONVENTION. TORONTO, CANADA. 

 See Canadian Notes, page 14U3. —From Toronto Daily News. 



Top row. reading from left to riyht— James Armstrong, Cheapside; William McEvoy, Inspector of Apiaries, 



Woodburn; R. Lowe.v, Woodrose; M. Emigh, Treasurer, Holbrook ; G. A. Deadman, Brussels; W. Craig, 



Brantford. 

 Lower row-M. B. Holmes, Athens ; G. L. Grosjean, Coburg ; H. G. Sibbald, President, Claude ; R. H. Smith. 



First Vice-president. St. Thomas ; J. P. Miller. Second Vice-president, London ; Wm. Couse, Secretary, 



Streetsville; J. Brown, Chard. 



