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ing*. I have seen the time when it paid 

 me, and paid me well. 



Editor of the Review, and Inspector 

 of Apiaries, are about all of the titles 

 that can now be laid at my door. How 

 long" I shall retain the latter is some- 

 what doubtful. As long as I do re- 

 tain it, I shall do m^' duty to the best 

 of my ability, but as the Review grows 

 and grows, and claims more and more 

 of my time, it is likely that the time 

 will eventually come when I will find 

 it best to turn over the Inspectorship 

 to some other man. First and fore- 



most, I am editor of the Review, and I 

 allow nothing to come between me and 

 that work. 



While I would not advise a farmer 

 to get tools and learn how to shoe his 

 horses, nor to make their harness, I 

 agree with friend Getaz that it is well 

 to be able to mend a strap, or weld a 

 link in a broken chain, instead of mak- 

 ing a trip to town while everything 

 else waits. The advice to make a few 

 hives at first, to "see how it goes," is 

 also excellent. — Ed. Review.] 



BY W. W. CRIMS. 



T HAVE had about 17 years of exper- 

 J- ience in running planing mill ma- 

 chinery, and overseeing the work 

 around such mills, and I will say to 

 the man wanting good hives, don't 

 dump an order for 100 hives on the 

 planing mill man, with a sample hive, 

 expecting him to take measures, and 

 count pieces, and get out good hives. 

 Do not have hives cut out at a planing 

 mill unless 3'ou know that the man who 

 is to do the work is competent; and 

 then you better stay right with him 

 yourself. 



HAVE A SAMPLE HIVE, MAKE OUT AN 



ACCURATE LIST OF PIECES WANTED, 



THEN STAY BY AND SEE THEM 



CUT OUT. 



First, send to the hive factory and 

 get a sample of the hive you want made; 

 or make it by hand yourself. If you 

 cannot make one by hand, you will 

 never succeed with 100 by machinery; 

 and you Dinst know that it is right — 

 every piece. Decide the number of hives 

 you want made, put down on paper 

 the number and size of all the pieces. 



then go to the mill and see that each 

 piece is cut exact length, thickness 

 and width; each rabbet cut proper 

 width and depth. Never make a hive, 

 or any other box for out doors, with 

 only a plain square joint; it cannot be 

 nailed up sti^ong enough. 



MANY WORKMEN ARE "'SLACK" AND 

 CARELESS. 



Do not say "that is near enough." 

 Exact is what you want. I do not 

 care to brag on my work; I am not 

 making hives to sell; but do not believe 

 there can be found a miss of 1-16 of an 

 inch in all the pieces I have gotten out 

 for 500 hive bodies, 1,000 supers, 5,000 

 frames, bottoms and covers. Any 

 mechanic can do the same with experi- 

 ence, the right kind of machinery, and 

 an effort to do his work right. I 

 could not trust a man I had in the mill 

 to do this work, and I had some that 

 had been in the business longer than 

 I had, but they had never taken any 

 more interest in the work than just to 

 szvap tefi hours of time for $1.50. They 

 moved the lumber from one mill to the 

 other, and I did the cutting and sizing. 



