Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1888 — BEES IN CALIFORNIA. [ARTICLE]

BEES IN CALIFORNIA.

They "Jai|p" a Claim on a House and Fight for It. It frequently occurs in southern Caifornia that a swarm of bees take possesion of a house and fill the space between the lathiuq and rustic with honey, resisting all mild nltumps to drive them out. The following is from a Tustin City correspondent: *'Sam Tiistin has been having a war with bees. A half-dozen swarms lmd taken possession of his store building, occupied by J. W. Ballard, and threatened to hold it to the. exclusion of its owners. And as the bees were very enthusiastic in their business it looked as though they might stay! even though Sam had the first claim. Tustin, with ~an able assistant, first clothed themselves in complete armor of mosquito-cloth and heavy gloves, and, armed with an assortment of carpenter tools to tear off the rustic, etc., then, by the liberal use of brimstone aud fire, made It warm for the pests. About two days finished one 'houseful’ and the boys hud so much fight in them, or wanted, revenge, that they attacked a large colony in possesion of the Presbyterian church, won the fight, and confiscated several barrels of honey,’’