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Volume XXI 
May, 1912 
Number 5 
The swarming cloud of bees collected upon a small branch and soon were a great mass of squirming bodies, crowded one on top of another 
A Beginner’s Experience With'Beekeeping 
BY D. Everett Lyon, 
Photographs by the Author and Ella^ M‘'.‘»IBoult 
T N common with others similarly circumstanced, I had not 
been long in my new suburban home before I found myself 
almost unconsciously beginning to observe the many phases of 
plant, insect, and animal life with which the countryside abounds. 
This observation was not that of an advanced student of 
nature, but rather 
made up of mere¬ 
ly casual glances. 
Among the first 
things that attracted my attention,^ was the marvelous energy 
and activity of’ a_ majs^’f.hQiiehthat made the air resonant 
with their song as they cKeefMlly, gathered the nectar from 
a gorgeous basswood tree’ that lured them to the golden 
sweets of its abundant bloom. With lightning speed the bees 
rushed through 
the bloom of what 
I afterward learned 
was a favorite 
The branch is broken off and the bees are 
gently shaken on the ground 
The lower frame contains the brood cells, 
and above are the collecting boxes 
(II) 
Where the grass is rank and tangled, a cloth 
will prevent the bees from being scattered 
