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see, we use on every occasion, excepting perhaps when 

 hiving swarms, a bee-veil. They are very cheap, and 

 should be in constant readiness. We make ours by 

 doubling up a yard of black-leno muslin, and sewing up 

 the two sides, leaving the bottom only open, like a plain 

 bag. This is merely slipped over the hat, so as to cover 

 completely the whole of the head and neck, then the coat 

 is buttoned over it up to the chin, if possible ; the brim 

 of the hat holds it a sufficient distance from the face, &c. 

 Thus shielded, no one need have the slightest alarm, but 

 pull out the bars of the hive, covered over with hundreds 

 of the bees, fearlessly ; in fact, this simple protection gives 

 courage to the most timid bee-farmer. Never use gloves 

 of any kind, they are only in the way, and prevent 

 free use of the fingers, which are needful in all apiarian 

 operations. 



Having given directions how to render the stocks harm- 

 less, we come now to another point — "taming the bees." 

 " To tame vicious bees," says a writer in the Scottish 

 Gardener, " we have only to accustom them to the form 

 of human beings. A scarecrow, or what our Scotch friends 

 call a bogle, placed in front of the hives is a great help. 

 It can be shifted now and then, and to provoke a general 

 attack, place a loose waving rag or handkerchief in the 

 palm of the bogle. Bees attack the waving provoking 

 handkerchief, and sting at it until their vice leaves them. 

 That which scares crows tends to domesticate bees. If 

 kept in a garden where men wander and children are often 

 seen, and where they are not disturbed, bees are as tame 

 and as peaceable as cocks and hens." Daniel Wildman 

 made himself famous in the year 1766, in the West of 

 England, for his command over bees. He often exhibited 

 his bees before the nobility, as the following advertisement, 

 which appeared in a London paper in 1772, will show : — 

 "June 20th, 1772. — Exhibition of bees on horseback, at 



