HOUSE AND GARDEN 
1 July, 
1912 
the entire back building there is a large 
attic. 
The woodwork of the house is simple 
in treatment, but designed to have some 
individuality and appropriateness to the 
type of building. Throughout the first 
floor the doors are fitted with latches and 
handles of the owner’s design in place of 
knobs. The decorative scheme of the 
principal rooms is rendered as simple as 
possible by the use of grass cloth; felt 
papers in quiet tones serve chiefly as a 
background for the paintings and furni¬ 
ture. 
The Community of the Bees 
(Continued from page 27) 
The drones have no stings, this function 
or organ being in the exclusive possession 
of the queen and workers, though the 
queen seldom uses hers on a human being. 
Bears, toads, snakes and skunks are the 
natural enemies of bees, and will make 
ravages upon the most densely populated 
hives, and the little bees must have some 
means of repelling invaders, otherwise 
they would be the prey of all these an¬ 
imals. Bears seek the honey, and will 
often climb up bee trees and scoop it out 
with their paws, their heavy coat of fur 
being a good protection, and the only vul¬ 
nerable point being their noses, but the 
bees are not long in coming in contact 
with this point. 
The other enemies lurk about the en¬ 
trances of the hives and devour the live 
bees, and it seems strange that they can 
do this without being stung in the mouth. 
The skunk will assail a hive at night, and 
scratch at the entrance of the hive to lure 
the sentinels out to their fate, and on more 
than one occasion I have caught these 
pestiferous little creatures in well-baited 
traps. 
To the amateur a hive of bees casting 
a swarm is a sight long to be remembered 
even though it may be viewed from a re¬ 
spectful distance. Swarming is a perfect¬ 
ly natural process, and usually occurs dur¬ 
ing the months of May and June, though 
I have known them to emerge before and 
after these months. 
The reason for the swarming impulse 
is seen in the fact that it occurs at that 
season of the year when bloom is most 
abundant, and the brood nest of the hive 
is filled with brood. It is just at this time 
the queen is doing her best to add to the 
population of the hive. Seldom, if ever, 
will a colony cast a swarm until the hive 
is filled with either honey or brood, or 
both, and it is this crowded condition that 
forces them out. 
Even a novice at beekeeping can ob¬ 
serve the premonitory signs a colony will 
give of its intention to swarm, as the large 
clusters of bees on the outside of the hive 
are sure and certain evidences. 
Unless hived by their owners within a 
reasonable time after clustering the 
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