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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



t)EC. 15. 



ed of material in the flat, ready for shipment, 

 for making five complete Dovetailed hives. 



I had got this description written to here, 

 while at the World's Fair; but I'm now writing 

 at home; and had it not been for an accident. I 

 should not have known what was hid away in 

 the lower package. While your exhibit was 

 being transferred from the place of exhibition 

 to the warehouse, for shipment, several boxes 

 fell from the wagon, and this package was 

 broken open; and when I arrived upon the 

 " scene," the teamster, with a ridiculously woe- 

 begone face, was gathering up the fragments, 

 and I could not help having a good laugh. 



case hides it, stands a solar wax-extractor. It 

 was the " Innocent cause" of many either un- 

 favorable or complinii ntary remarks; and it, or 

 one of its ancestors, was the cause of my get- 

 ting a sarcastic scoring by a maid— (I was 

 going to say maiden lady), but I don't dare lo, 

 for she might jjossihly see this. 



In the front part of the case, but out of sight 

 for the same reason the wax-extractor is, is a 

 Myers bucket brass spray- pump, with a long 

 pipe extension, for sending a tine spray of water 

 among a flying swarm of bees without unneces- 

 sarily wasting the water— said to be better and 

 cheaper than a Whitman. In the same locality 



A. I. ROOT S EXHIBIT AT THE WORLD S FAIR. 



There on the ground lay parts of every thing 

 that go to make up the inside of a hive-super, 

 and all its internal arrangements. The two 

 other pieces are the sides and ends of the hives. 

 On these is a smoker, and back of it hangs some 

 thin foundation. Above this is a shipping-case, 

 and on it stands a super with a D. section-hold- 

 er and a bee-brush in it. 



In front of the package for hives, but out of 

 sight in the picture, because the front of the 



with the pump are some Crane and other smo- 

 kers; foundation, bee-escapes, a nice chafl" cush- 

 ion, rubber gloves, and some of the btst and 

 smoothest sections I have ever seen, and they 

 were taken from regular stock. On the back wall 

 of the case is readily seen a large sign, printed on 

 white muslin, such as I am told you fasten on 

 each side of the freight cars you send loaded 

 with supplies across the country. On this sign 

 may be seen honey-knives, different styles of 



