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GLEANIKGS IK BEE CULTURE. 



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many bee-keepers, we take the liberty to give you 

 a description of it. The car is twelve feet long by 

 six feet wide, painted bright scarlet, and trimmed 

 with white, and makes a very showy appearance; 

 but the car is not for show, by any means. It has a 

 door in each end, and two windows on each side with 

 double sash, one side being glass and the other wire 

 cloth, so that we can have free ventilation through. 

 Each side of the car is fitted up with two drawers 

 that hold just ten Langstroth frames. We start out 

 with one drawer full of empty combs on each side. 

 Pushing the drawer alongside of the hive, we take 



the full frames from the hive to the empty drawer 

 and fill the hives right up with the combs from the 

 other drawer. Then we are through with one 

 swarm, the time occupied being incredibly short. 

 Then we are ready for swarm No. 2, and the combs 

 from No. 1, when extracted, go into the hive of No. 

 3. Of course, the honey is being extracted inside 

 the car at the same time. The drawers are so ar- 

 ranged that the car is beetight when they are either 

 open or shut. 



By request they have also given us the di- 

 agram shown, explaining the arrangement 



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A RAILROAD APIARY, BELONGING TO M. A. WILLIAMS & CO., BERKSniRE, N. Y. 



