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Show OO USES BARE HANDS TO CAPTURE SWARM SPOKANE, Wash, sept. is. The capture of a swarm of 15,000 brc , , the roof of a local building performed per-formed by a man who was barehand-ed barehand-ed and without a mask was a spe, ta ! wltno.sed here recently. The bees took possession of an upright up-right scantling on the roof of the building, and Successfully evaded all efforts of the owner of "tin- building to dislodge them. A local seed company com-pany was app.-aWl to for relief, and George. W York, for many years editor edi-tor of the American Bee Journal .in Chicago, hastened to the scene, only pausing to grab his hat and a bee hive. , Arriving at the building, he walked up to the swarm, placed the hive entrance en-trance close to the base of the scantling scant-ling on which the bees had swarmed, and began to strip them off the plank With his bare hands so that th"y dropped to the roof. As the Insects fell to the roof thc slowly crawled Into the open hive. When the entire swarm had been removed re-moved from the scantling In this way. their captor fastened the entrance with wire netting. He estimated that he had secured all of the swarm with the exception of about 100 The only Injury he suffered In the process consisted con-sisted of two slight stings. |