Baraboo weekly news. [volume] (Baraboo, Wis.) 1912-197?, 1921-12-01
Former Baraboo Resident InduIges
in Bee Culture on the Pacific
Coast
FINDS TARANTULA
CRAWLING NEAR NOSE
Bees Are Like Humans, Rob Other
Swarms---Only One Queen in a
Hive, Lays Heavily

Many remember Guy o. Glazier.
brother of r. l.. Glazier of Barabo0
and Mrs. G. w. Eggelston OF KilbourR.
The former resident is now resi-
dent of San Diego and the Sun OF
ticle by G. Wesley Hall a few days
Iago:
BY c.. Wesley Hall In San Diego Sun
Just one look at Guy o. Glazier
and you get the impression that he
is essentially man Of the big out
doors-a lover of the great open
country, that he knows so well from
his years of rambling the mountains
of the west from Mexico to Canada.
The impression is true one. Every
touch of his six feet three of Drawn
and muscle bespeaks life in the open
close to nature. Glazier is well-edu7
Gated man and a great student of wild
life
For the past few years he has been
particularly interested in bees and
has obtained a thorough knowledge of
these interesting little workers.
through exhaustive study and associa-
tion with them.
Has 800 swarms
Since 1918, when he started to
handle bees he. has collected more
than 800 swarms Of wild bees in and
around San Diego county. His inter
est in these insects was inspired on a.
camping trip near Campo when he de-
cided to try again the thing which he.
had not done since boy in Wiscon-
sin-collect wild swarm of bees.
Bee hunting, Glazier says, is double
dangerous in these parts mainly on
account OF the number of rattle
snakes which. infest the same section
as the bees and often nest in the same
holes and crevices where the bees are
found.
Occasional ThriIIers
Imagine your feelings and the cold
chills that would run down your spine
if your were to suddenly look up and
find a huge tarantula not more than
two inches from your nose and, worse
than that, crawling on the inside of
your head net. Well, that is axactly
what happened to Glazier a few days
ago while he was out in the hills bee
hunting
He admits that the situation was
anything but pleasing to him but real
lied that it wouldn't be we'll to become
unduly excited. When he had collected
his thoughts his next act was to quick
ly jerk the veil from his head and
trample the huge hairy spider to
death.
On the same expedition while he
left his car to find a swarm on a
nearby hillside a quantity of honey
that reposed in the tonneau attracted
swarm and when he returned it
was a simple matter to box the bees
in the carrying hive. "And now they're
working for me-" he says.
Uses Few Tools
Sometimes in his rambling over the
hills and through the canyons, Glazier
sees a swarm of bees clustering about
"a badger hole or crevice in the rocks,
In that case, armed with a smoke
producer a shovel and crowbar he
goes. right to the swarm.
Old rags make the best smoke, he
says, and smoke deadens their ardor
and starts the bees feeding on the
honey in the comb they have made.
Then he digs down distance, ofstwo
or three feet, which is all that is
necessary, and cuts out parts of the
comb, fitting it into frame which he
carries for the purpose. The bees then
cluster on this frame and it is placed
in the carrying hive. Some of them
may cluster on the remaining part of
the comb. AS if they were mere harm
less pebbles Glazier takes feather
duster and brushes them off into his
carrying box.
Swarm to Bait
On many occasions in his quest for
the insects it is necessary to put out
bait in the form of a piece of honey
and wait for the bees to swarm to it
which does not usually take very long.
AS they are attracted to the bait, he
watches their line of flight and fol-
lows it to the natural hive.
Bees do not always build their
combs in holes in the ground or crew,