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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE, 



Feb. 15 



P ORTER BEE-ESCAPES 



HIVE ESCAPE 



When taking- off surplus this is the 

 greatest saving device. It does away 

 with the shaking of the heavy supers, 

 the cruelty of excessive smoking which 

 causes the bees to uncap their honey and 

 start robbing. Just tip the super to the 

 angle of 45 degrees and insert the board. 

 In a few hours it is free of bees; then 

 take off your super. You can as well af- 

 ford to be without a smoker as without 

 the Porter Bee-escape. 



PRICES 



Each, 20 cts. ; dozen, $2.25; postpaid. 

 With board, 35 cts. each; $3.25 per 10; 

 by express or freight. 



TESTIMONIALS 



They are perfect in action.— British Bee Journal. 



No bee-keeper can afford to be without them. — 

 Prof. Cook in American Bee Journal. 



Worthy of highest commendation.— Eugene Secor, 

 judge on awards. World's Fair, Chicago. 



I would not do without them even if they cost five 

 five dollars apiece.— W. Muth-Rasmussen, Indepen- 

 dence, Cal. 



They are absolutely perfect. I can not tolerate 

 my own make since using them. — John S. Reese, 

 Winchester, Ky. 



They are one of the best things ever brought into 

 any apiary, and should be used in every bee-yard 

 in the whole world. — Wm. McEvoy, Foul-brood In- 

 spector, Ontario, Canada. 



There is no robbing or fighting or disturbance in 

 the apiary when the surplus honey is taken off with 

 them. They are simply perfect. — W. Woodley in 

 British Bee Journal. 



HOUSE ESCAPE 



To be used over the doors and windows 

 in the extracting-house, or any place you 

 wish to clear of bees. The most persis- 

 tent robber can not return. Some bee- 

 keepers make a practice of taking off the 

 filled supers and stacking seven <?r eight 

 in a pile. The Porter Honey-house 

 mounted on a board makes the best kind 

 of escape. Don't wait till to-morrow 

 before you get a supply. You can not 

 afford to be without them longer. 



PRICES 



Each, 25c; dozen, $2.75; postpaid. 

 TESTIMONIALS 



The Porter bee-escape clears the supers of bees so 

 perfectly and quickly and easily that it makes the 

 taking off of honey a pleasure instead of a dread as 

 in former years.— G. M. Doolittle, Borodino, N. Y. 



The removal of full honey-boxes has become an 

 amusement since we began using the Porter bee- 

 escape. — Ed. Bertrand, Editor Revue Internationale 

 d'Apiculture, Nyon, Switzerland. 



This number of the Review contains more un- 

 qualified praise of the Porter bee-escape than any 

 other issue has ever contained of any other imple- 

 ment; but so long as it is deserved, who cares? — 

 Bee-keepers' Review. 



They are the greatest thing on earth for expel- 

 ling bees from supers.— G. J. Flansburg, South 

 Bethlehem, N. Y. 



I would not be without them for four times what 

 they cost.— Dr. W. A. Tufts, Musson, La. 



Undoubtedly the best bee-escape is the one invent- 

 ed by R. & E. C. Porter —W. S. Pouder, Indianap- 

 olis, Ind. 



Bee-men are certainly behind the times if they 

 can afford to use them and do not.— M. H. Mendle- 

 son, Ventura, Cal. 



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