9L6 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



KODAKING AMONG THE BEES. 



Sept. 1 



BY MRS. E. PRIESTER. 



My daughter now and then takes a few 

 pictures. I will send one where a swarm of 

 bees alighted on a boy's hat; also one where 

 I hold the hat in my hand after taking them 

 off his head; also one of my bee-yard with 

 myself and boy in it. As you will see, I 

 make my bee-hats by sewing a piece of 

 wire cloth, such as is used for window- 

 screen, around a common wide- rimmed 

 straw hat, then sew a curtain of mosquito- 

 bar around the lower edge of wire; then I 



THE SWARM ON THE HAT. 



Conundrum : Did the swarm capture the boy or did the 

 boy capture the bees ? 



wear an apron like a butcher's, and tuck 

 mosquito-bar under the apron, which gives 

 me a chance to slip my hand under the 

 apron and wipe my face or take a drink, etc. 

 It is much cooler than a veil. I wish the 

 one on the hat were good enough to go into 

 the prize contest, as I think it is seldom a 

 swarm is caught in that way. 



I wish Mr. Root would come to this part 

 of Cahfornia, the Sacramento Valley. You 



MRS. 



E. PRIESTER IN HER BEE- SUIT WITH A 

 SWARM OF BEES ON A BEE-HAT. 



folks think if you see Southern California 

 you have seen it all; but you would find lots 

 of good country and good people here, 



I have 113 hives of bees now, but aim to 

 have only 100, so I am trying to learn to 

 keep from increase as long as I keep bees. 



I would not do without Gleanings, as I 

 enjoy A. I. R. 's writings very much. I have 

 kept bees over forty years, but only about 

 eight years in modern hives. I just run for 

 comb honey. They were box hives. 



I was raised in Iowa, but crossed the 

 plains in 1863; am now 58, but will keep 

 bees as long as I am able to attend to them. 



Davisville, Cal. 



APIARY OF MRS. E. PRIESTER. 



