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an out-apiary of eighty-odd colonies 

 with good results. It certainly is cheap, 

 as an empty three-pound tomato can, 

 with a few tacks, will make one dozen 

 or more. 



There is very little new or original 

 about it as it is the lateE. W. Alexander's 

 plan of cutting small pieces of tin in 

 different shapes for keeping a record of 

 the queen's age, as appeared in the 



such condition, according to the system 

 used for the different points of the 

 compass to represent. The length of the 

 needle will depend upon the depth of hive 

 in use. For L. hives with hand-holds it 

 can be seven inches long, providing the 

 tack is driven through the centre of the 

 needle as it should be. To prevent the 

 needle from moving, ^s of an inch of the 

 sharp point of the needle is turned at 



August Review for 1904, combined with 

 the main principles of the Queen Regis- 

 tering cards as described on page 91 of 

 the latest edition of "Advanced Bee 

 Culture." It consists of a strip of tin, 

 preferably galvanized metal of some 

 kind, I of an inch wide at one end and 

 cut to a sharp point at the other, tacked 

 on the hive-end over the entrance, 

 where it is less likely to be disturbed. 

 The hive-end is to represent a compass, 

 and this strip of tin the needle, so that 

 when the "needle" is turned to the 

 various points of the compass it will 

 mean that the colony is in such and 



right angles. This turned point can be 

 very quickly and easily pressed into 

 the hive-end with the thumb, pocket- 

 knife, or hive-tool, and as easily re- 

 moved. Especially is this true when the 

 needle is pointing in a northerly or 

 southerly direction; as it is then, more or 

 less with the grain of the wood. If the 

 hive is made of very hard wood it would 

 be advisable to make two cuts into the 

 edge of the needle — on the side — in such 

 manner, so that when the tin between 

 these cuts is turned at right angles it 

 will form a projection in the form of a 

 glaziers's point. Then when the needle 



