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it last fall. A hand barrow was used. 

 Two hives were carried at once, and a 

 man at each end took hold of the handles 

 and walked between them, carrying the 

 barrow and its load. Two bottom boards 

 were prepared by tacking in a half inch 

 strip across the front, where the entrance 

 would come, thus forming a complete 

 rim one-half inch high all around the 

 edge of the bottom board. When a hive 

 was set down upon this rim it was com,- 

 pletely closed. Instead of letting a hive 

 down upon its own bottom board, and 

 then lifting the hive and the bottom 

 board, a hive was simply picked up by 

 the hand holes and set down upon the 



prepared bottom board. As the bees 

 have retreated up among the combs, and 

 no light reaches them after being placed 

 upon the bottom board, they are in- 

 clined to remain up among the combs. 

 Some colonies can be carried into the 

 cellar and set up in place without a bee 

 leaving the hive. The only trouble comes 

 from colonies that are heavy with honey, 

 which causes the bees to cluster lower, 

 so that part of the cluster may reach the 

 bottom board, but there can be no flying 

 until the hive is in the cellar and picked 

 up to be put into place. We put in 40 

 colonies last fall, using this plan, and not 

 half a teacupful of bees were lost. 



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Selected Articles 



AND EDITORIAL COMMENTS. 



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THL HONLY CROP IS LIGHT. 



And the Time to Sell is Now, When the 

 Buyers are Hot After the Honey. 



The crop of honey for this year has 

 been very light except in a few favored 

 localities. The editor of Gleanings, who 

 has exceptional facilities for learning the 

 truth of the matter, writes as follows: 



As the season advances it becomes 

 more and more evident that the general 

 crop of honey throughout the United 

 States has been a light one. Apparently 

 it is even lighter than it was last year. 

 A year ago we had a fair yield of West- 

 ern honey; but in many sections of the 

 great West, especially in California, the 

 crop has been light, almost a failure in 

 some localities. While there has been a 

 splendid yield in some portions of the 

 East, yet these areas seem to be some- 

 what limited. We know it to be a fact 

 that the buyers are out hustling after 

 honey as they never did before. 



Still more important is the advice that 

 he gives, which reads as follows: 



Now is the time to get good prices, and 

 it is our opinion that before much of the 

 honey held in reserve is let loose, and 



there is not much, the figures will have to 

 advance a little. In the meantime, bee 

 keepers who have honey should not 

 make the mistake of holding too long. 

 Better sell when buyers are hot after it 

 than to wait until after the holidays, 

 when prices always slump. 



Never before have so many jobbers 

 and dealers written to us and tried to 

 buy our honey. Some of the offers are 

 so tempting, so near the price that we 

 are getting from our mail order trade, 

 that little would be lost in accepting 

 theirs; considering the quantity that 

 would be taken. 



5TLAM-HLATLD KNIFL. 



Some of the Points to be Observed in its 

 Successful Use. 



Nearly every one who tries a steam- 

 heated uncapping knife is delighted, but 

 it seems that Mr. 0. B. Metcalfe of 

 Mesilla Park, New Mexico, had some 

 difficulties to overcom.e, as he writes to 

 Gleanings as follows: 



