winter."

"I see!" said Mr. Pertell. "Well, I guess Russ has a good idea--we'll
get a moving picture of them hiving the swarm. But what do the men
make all that noise for?"

"Oh, there's a notion that bees will settle down in a bunch around
th' queen, and not fly away if they hear a racket. I don't know
whether it's true or not. Some folks spray 'em with water, and that
usually fetches 'em."

Meanwhile Russ came out with the camera and began taking pictures of
the odd scene. First he got pictures of Ruth, Alice and the teacher
applying mud to the stings of the children.

"Well, we'll get a good film out of it, after all," said Mr. Pertell.
"And we can do the school room scene over again after the excitement
calms down."

Then Russ began taking pictures of the men making a noise to try and
induce the bees to settle. The men themselves seemed to enjoy being
filmed. They wore veils of mosquito netting, draped over their
broad-brimmed hats, for they approached close to the bees, which were
now flying low.

"I'd like to get a near view of these bees," said Russ, "but I don't
fancy getting too close. It's no fun to be stung eight or ten times."

"I'll lend you my hat," offered one of the men and, thus protected,
Russ moved his camera closer and got a fine view of the swarm of
honey-making insects as they alighted on the low branch of an apple
tree.

"Git the hive, now, sir!" called another of the men, and while the
hive was brought up, to receive the bunch of bees when they should be
knocked into it, with their queen, about whom they were clustered,
Russ got a fine film of that.

Afterward Sandy explained how bees swarm. A colony of bees will
permit but one queen in a hive. Sometimes, when a new one is hatched,
the swarm divides, part of the bees going off with the new, or
sometimes the old queen, to form a new colony.

This is called "swarming," and the idea is to capture the new swarm,
and so increase your number of colonies. Sometimes the bees will go
off to the woods, and make a home for themselves in a hollow tree,
being thus lost to the keeper. A swarm of bees will make in a season
many pounds of honey more than they need to feed themselves during
the winter.

Sandy explained how faithful and devoted a colony of bees is to
their queen, which is the bee that lays eggs out of which are hatched
drones, or male bees, and the workers. There is a peculiar kind of
honey called "queen bread," and sometimes, it