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Or how to Realize the Most Money with the Smallest Expenditure of Capital 

 and Labor in the Care of Bees, Rationally Considered. 



PUBLISHED 3IONTHI.Y. 



Vol. I. 



MEDINA, O., APRIL 1, 1873. 



No. 4. 



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ARRANGEMENT OF THE APIARY. 



U -■ should add Designed and Engraved by "Kovicr," but "P. G." says it wasn't engraved ft 

 ' he dul it with a saw." P. S.— Saws are Novice's last hobby.) 



STARTING AX APIARY. 



Xo i. 

 B OW for business. In the above illus- 

 tration which is drawn on a scale of 

 one inch to twelve feet, the house is repre- 

 sented in the center, with the hives and 

 grape-vine trellises arranged about it in 

 the form of a hexagon, as given in our 

 6rst paper, only that the above shows an 

 apiary at a stage in which it contain-; only 

 56 colonics. 

 The building has a door three feet in 



bby.) 



width, at each end, to facilitate as far ns 

 we can the operation of extracting, for the 

 arrangement of the hives permits the great- 

 est amount of room possible and at the 

 same time allows us to take almost n bee 

 line from any hive to either of the doors, 

 and yet those mosl remote arc but 24 feet 

 distant. 



Just as soon as this number is received 

 we hope. each one of you will prqvjde a 

 nice clean load of fresh sawdust even if it 

 costs $2.00 as it does sometimes here in 

 -Medina. 



Get the children to help (the more tho 



