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BEES AS A NUISANCE 
should be said, if the bees are in the cellar 
they should not be set out on a wash-day; 
or if they are outdoors, and the sun comes 
out bright so they begin to fly strongly 
from the hives, one should send word to the 
neighbors and ask them not to hang out 
their washing, if it is a wash-day, for a few 
hours. It might be well also to send along 
a few boxes of honey, and keep the folks 
aeross the way “sweetened up.” Ninety- 
nine neighbors out of a hundred, with such ’, 
treatment, will put up with a great deal 
of inconvenience, and say, “Oh! that is 
all right. It won’t take long to rinse out 
the clothes again.” , 
great caution needs to be exercised. The 
extracting-room should be screened off, and 
no honey left exposed to the bees. When¬ 
ever possible, he should take off all surplus 
by the use of bee-escapes rather than by 
shaking. See Robbing and Extracting. 
Under the head of Anger of Bees, in the 
latter part of the article, and under the 
head of Apiaries, emphasis is put upon the 
importance of placing the hives so that 
they shall be screened by shrubbery or 
small trees from other hives and objects in 
the yard. Nothing is more conducive to 
insuring good temper on the part of bees 
than to place the individual hives so that 
When the team was in the flight of the bees the smoker was held in readiness should the horses be stung. 
It will now be in order to consider the 
more serious cases—those in which horses 
or cattle have been stung. If the bee¬ 
keeper has been foolish enough to place 
hives near the highway or near his neigh¬ 
bor’s line fence where he has loose stock, 
such beekeeper may have to pay pretty 
dearly for it before he gets thru. The 
remedy is prevention. He should always 
put his bees in the back yard, and not too 
close to a neighbor’s line fence. He should 
be careful, also, to prevent robbing. He 
should see that there are no weak nuclei 
with entrances too large. As soon as the 
honey flow stops, he should contract the 
entrances of all the weaker colonies. If 
extracting is done after the honey flow, 
the inmates from their own doorsteps can 
not see moving objects in the immediate 
vicinity. When the space where the apiary 
is located is open, without shrubbery or 
trees to screen the hives, the bees are much 
Grosser than when placed behind obstruct¬ 
ing objects. The average backlot bee¬ 
keeper will have much better bees to han¬ 
dle, and no trouble with neighbors, if he 
puts his hives among the bushes. If he 
has a high board fence, or a hedge of ever¬ 
greens to shut off the little apiary from 
passing teams, pedestrians, or children 
that play in the next yard, the conditions 
will be much better. See Backlot Bee¬ 
keeping. 
