| Show ringing bells to swarm bees it Is a foolish notion to suppose that the ringing of bells or banging 0 tin pans will cause a swarm of bees to settle the real origin of this cus torn dates back to the reign of alfred the great who in order to prevent dis regarding the ownership of a swarm ordered that the owner should always ring a bell when his bees swarmed and ever since then the good farmer a wife has been rushang out with ringing bells whenever the bees swarmed and the fact that they settled verified in her own mind the belief that the bell did it country life in america |