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HANDLING BEES. 



cloth, suflficiently large to cover the top of the hive, wring out 

 dry and spread over the hive aa soon as the quilt is removed. 

 "You may use the same to drive the bees out of the sec- 

 tions. Keep the bottles well corked for future use." — (Rev. 

 G. Eaynor, in the British Bee-Journal.) 



The same liquid may be forced among the bees through an 

 atomizer. As it evaporates it leaves no bad smell behind. 

 385. A neighbor of ours, who is a magnetist, told our 



Fig. 93. 



VEIL SEWED ON THE HAT. 



foreman-Apiarist that bees could be pacified by simply laying 

 one's hands above the combs while the cloth is carefully re- 

 moved. AVe have seen bees withdraw from the frames inside 

 the hive, under this laying on of hands; but we are not sure 

 that such magnetism, if there be magnetism in it, is sufficient 

 to prevent the bees from stinging. 



