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well tell who it was that bought them— it 

 was Mr. E. B. Tyrell) worked them for 

 extracted honey, and adopted such short- 

 cut methods that he was able to do the 

 work by being with the bees about one 

 day in seven. The man who sold them 

 was sick of his bargain, He did not sup- 

 pose bees could be managed with so little 

 work. This illustrates what I am trying 

 to express, viz., that some of us need to 

 learn how to do less work with our bees. 



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MULTIPI^Y YOURSELF BY MEANS OF 

 HIRED HELP. 



Many a man accomplishes much less 

 than he would did he not insist upon do- 

 ing everything with his own hands. The 

 time was when I set up the advertise- 

 ments in the Review, when I "made up" 

 the forms, when I trimmed the paper, ad- 

 dressed the wrappers and wrapped up the 

 papers for the mail. I now do none of 

 these things. I have found it more profit- 

 able to show somebody else how to do it, 

 and pay them for doing it. In fact, I 

 have about reached the point where I 

 find it does not pay me to do anything 

 that I can hire done. 



If a man "keeps more bees," as I so 

 strongly advocate, he may be obliged to 

 hire help, and he will find it greatly to 

 his advantage to do so if there is anv 

 need for it. You can teach a man how 

 to extract honey at least nearly as well as 

 you can do it yourself, and his help will 

 enable you to keep twice as many bees. 



The most successful men are those who 

 hire others to help them. 



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SUPPORTING FRAMES ON NAILS. 

 Mr.E.B. Tyrrell has sawed oflf the project- 

 ing ends of the top bars to his frames, or 

 rather, he makes his frames without the 

 projecting ends, and for a support, he 

 drives a six penny finishing nail into the 

 frame about half an inch below its top. 

 This nail takes the place of the usual 

 wooden projection of the top-bar, and a 

 moment's reflection will show what a 

 meager chance the bees have for gluing 



it fast. It seemed to me that the frames 

 would not hang true, that they would 

 swing a little over to one side or the other, 

 but the support is so near the top that 

 this does not occur. Like his hive-cover 

 and bottom-board, Mr. Tyrrell has had 

 this style of support in use only one sea- 

 son, but so far he is well pleased with it. 

 I must say that I was delighted with the 

 simplicity and cheapness of these three 

 things, the bottom-boards, the covers and 

 the hive-supports. His frames are simple, 

 plain, all-wood frames, nailed up from 

 stuff cut off the edge of J<s lumber. The 

 tup-bars are j{ thick, and the end- and 

 bottom-bars about 5-16. He can step up 

 to a hive, take off the cover and take out 

 a frame, just about as quickly as though 

 it were an empty hive that had never 

 contained bees, and use no tools except 

 those given him by nature — his fingers. 

 There is no prying loose. How anybody 

 could think of going back to Hoffman 

 frames after using this arrangement would 

 be beyond my ken. 



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A "DIRT-CHEAP" BOTTOM BOARD. 



Mr. E. B. Tyrrell, of Davison, Michi- 

 gan, has been using a bottom-board this 

 year that is literally and figuratively 

 "dirt-cheap," in fact, is dirt or earth. 

 First, the hive-stand is made of rough, 

 inch lumber sawed into strips about three 

 inches wide, and nailed up so that the 

 stand is the same size as the bottom of 

 the hiv-e. In fact, it is a shallow box, 

 three inches deep, without top or bottom, 

 but the same size as the hive. I said it 

 was three inches deep, but the front piece, 

 the one that comes below the entrance of 

 the hive, is only two inches wide. The 

 stand is placed in position, leveled up, 

 and then filled with earth or sawdust, to 

 within an inch of the top — just level with 

 the top of the piece forming the front. 

 When the hive is set upon the hive-stand 

 the bottoms of the frames come about an 

 inch, or a little more, from the earth be- 

 low. 



At first thought this seems like a very 

 rough, primitive affair, as though simply 



