A MONTHLY JOURNAL 

 Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers. 



1.00 A YEAR. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. 



VOL. XX. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JUNE 15, 1907. NO. 6 



Making- an Absolutely Bee-Proof 

 Bee-Dress 



BELOW I write about a bee-dress I am 

 using which is absolutely bee-proof. 

 If this will ba of no interest to you, please 

 read no farther; throw this in the waste- 

 basket and so save your time. Thinking 

 you may decide to read it. here goes: 



Make an over-shirt of denim, sleeves 

 rather long, and small at the wrist. Let 

 the garment be very large in the neck. 

 with no opening in front or behind. Make 

 a head-dress a la Alexander, only about 

 five inches high. The diameter of this is 

 decided by the circumference of the hat 

 brim which should be its equal. This also 

 decides the size of the neck opening. 

 Put the seam of the wire-cloth head- 

 diess behind and sew the lower edge very 

 firmly to the dress. 



Now take a piece of denim sufficiently 

 long, and about six inches wide, and sew 

 one edge to the top of the head-dress. 

 Have a hem in top edge, put a string 

 through the hem, and tie this on your hat. 

 Make the over-shirt plenty long, so .hat 



you can tie a string around below the 

 waist. 



For the hands, the very best thing I can 

 get is a pair of gloves made of a rather 

 light colored twilled cloth, costing ten 

 cents a pair. They are quite bee-prouf 

 and short fingered. To the wrists of these 

 gloves sew the ankle ends of a pair of 

 women's stocking legs, and in the top ends 

 sew a piece of garter elastic ribbon, mak- 

 ing them tight enough to ciasp the arms 

 firmly. That makes the whole dress. 



Put a stiff-brim straw hat in its place 

 and leave it there. Draw on the rig over 

 your head, tie around the waist rather 

 tightly, put on the gloves, and you can 

 defy all the bees in your apiary. I use 

 these gloves without cutting off any of 

 the fingers. 



Now for its advantages: The first and 

 greatest is that it is absolutely bee-proof. 

 You know that there are no holes where 

 a bee can slip in. 1 was surprised to 

 find it quite cool. It is quickly put on and 



