74 Bee-keeping for Beginners. 



It is difficult to give general advice about what to 

 do in accidents caused by bees. But a few hints may 

 be useful. Some time ago the following accident (?) 

 is said to have happened, though we took it with the 

 proverbial grain of salt. This is it. A swarm of 

 bees flew towards a horse which was working quietly 

 in a field. The queen bee of the swarm went down 

 alive into the horse's stomach. All the other bees 

 loyally followed the queen into the horse's stomach, 

 and arriving there, and finding the hive not very 

 comfortable, commenced giving the horse their 

 opinion of matters by stinging him wholesale. The 

 horse kicked about, broke its harness, and after 

 doing a lot of damage, either died of the stings 

 or was shot, I forget which. It was a poor man's 

 swarm, and he had to pay for the horse. Well, the 

 remedy for this is, insure your bees. This can be 

 done for one penny a hive, and any damage up to 

 ;^30 will be covered by the pennies. Sometimes a 

 person is stung by a bee when far away from a hive, 

 and doing nothing to provoke the bees. Sometimes 

 a single sting has caused death. In such cases the 

 blood is probably in a very unhealthy condition. 

 Sometimes, and mostly, the inconvenience and pain 

 is only temporary. Here is the cure from Enquire 

 WitJiin upon Everything : — 



"Method of Curing the Stings of Bees and Wasps. — 

 The sting of a bee is generally more virulent than that 

 of a wasp, and with some people attended with very 



