TEMPERAMENTS 
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and introduced a new Italian with the natural result 
that in little over a month’s time the temper o* the 
colony had changed to a very marked degree, as the 
old bees died and the progeny of the gentle Italian 
took their places. 
I felt an inordinate pride in that big, strong colony 
and still have a very god-motherly feeling when I 
see it. 
A less troublesome experience was that of remov¬ 
ing bees living in a partition under the eaves of a 
little Swedenborgian church. The wardens feared 
lest the bees penetrate somehow into the main part 
of the church and some devout lady worshiper 
literally “have a bee in her bonnet!” 
They stipulated that if I took out the bees, no 
boards should be removed or the building injured 
in any way. This made it necessary for me to erect 
a scaffolding as high as the bees’ entrance. On this 
I placed a hive with a comb of brood and a caged 
queen, at the same time inserting a trap in the old 
entrance alongside the “hive” entrance. This trap 
allowed the bees to come out but prevented their 
return, and so induced them to accept philosophi¬ 
cally the next best thing—the hive close by waiting 
for them with a queen “ ’n everything.” 
The queen was liberated in a few days but the 
