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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIE'\^ 



Some one in our ranks, seems to me it 

 was Bro. Doolittle, reported putting a 

 setting hen under an empty bee hive, 

 leaving the hive standing in the sun — 

 forgetting all about it for some hours, 

 only to find the hen dead. Working in 

 a closed tent, standing in the sun, will 

 make you think of this unfortunate 

 hen. 



then from the tub into a can set upon 

 scales, as was the arrangnment at the 

 honey houses. An extractor placed at 

 such a height would bring the head of 

 the operator bumping up against the 

 canvas roof of the tent. As it was, we 

 had to draw off the honey into a pail 

 and pour it into the strainer on the tub 

 that was set up on some empty hives at 



The Moray Apiary. 



There is also a slimpse of Mitchell Bros, narrow-gauge logging road. 



HOW TO MAKE THE BEST OF A TENT. 



To rig up a tent for extracting, I 

 made a platform in one corner for the 

 extractor by driving down four stakes, 

 nailing boards across, and then laying 

 boards upon the cross-pieces, and nail- 

 ing them down. The platform was of 

 such a height that a pail could be set 

 under the honey gate of the extractor. 

 The tent was not high enough to allow 

 the extractor to be placed at such a 

 height that the honey could be run into 

 a tub with a cheese cloth cover, and 



such a height that the honey could be 

 run into a can set upon the scales. As 

 I have already said, a tent and all of 

 its arrangements are of the make-shift 

 order. 



ENJOYING THE WILD WOODS. 



The Morey yard, where the tent is 

 -set up, is about six miles from the 

 home-yard, and the driveto it is nearly 

 all of the way through the woods, 

 along old winding lumber roads, with 

 a "woodsy" odor in the air; and, after 

 a hard day's work, how delightful such 



