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Title: The American bee keeper
Identifier: americanbeekeepe1011falc (find matches)
Year: 1891 (1890s)
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Subjects: Bee culture; Honey
Publisher: Falconer, N. Y. : W. T. Falconer Manfg. Co.
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1900 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER C7 seconds. When 1 came to the surface they were still thera, and 1 was driven back more than once with panting, sobbing breath. My lungs were bursting and my heart leaping like a wild thing. The possibility of having to choos3 between death by drowning and death by stinging seemed not rj- niote. "Then I heard my boatman call 'Throw a bough for them to land on ! ' I swam to the shore, broke off a bough and threw it on the surface of the stream, my men doing the same. Then I dived again. When I came up no more bees attacked me and I saw half a dozen branches floating down the stream covered with a struggling mass of insects." BEES IN A HURRICANE. In our issue for September, 1899, we gave a brief account of the visit to our coast, on August 15th, of a West Indian hurricane, which pretty thoroughly dis- pelled the mosquitoes for the time being and tried its hand at manipulating bees. One view of its handiwork was present- ed, with a promise of more. The pres- ent number affords the lirst opportunity we have had to fulfill the promise.
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With hands like boxing gloves and heads like inflated footballs, the party limped across to the village. Half an hour later one of the number came in —uninjured. He had seen the bees coming and had sat down to await the assault. They cov- ered him from head to foot, but as he offered no resistance, they did not sting him. "I felt," says Mr. Clifford, 'uncommonly foolish as he told of his proceeding. It was anything but agreeable to think that we had had our run, our fight, our suffocation under water, and the pains we were enduring, all for nothing—that we might have avoided tliem all by simplv sitting still." AFTEK THE SQUALL. INTRODUCING A QUEEN. The Method Practiced by One Subscriber. BY .1. W. TKFFT. Read our clubbing list on another page. Place in hive four empty combs: on each side of these a frame of honey and a division board. Upon these place the caged queen in such a way that the bees may have access to tlie candy in the cage. Cover with enameled cloth and chaff cushion. Prepare a second liivc in the same

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