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and needs a cover over it. The honey 

 house must also be near the apiary and 

 needs a good foundation. Putting the 

 cellar under the honey house accom- 

 plishes both objects. 



It costs but little more to build two 

 stories high, and the upper story fur- 

 nishes an excellent store-room for hives, 

 supers, sections, empty combs, and the 

 thousand and one things that accumu- 

 late in an apiary. 



A large share of the lower floor is 

 needed for a shop, and the balance is 

 for a honey room. There is one point 

 upon which I neglected to touch in my 

 leader on this topic, and none of the 

 correspondents have touched it, and 

 that is shall the extracting be done in 

 the honey room ? If we are to keep the 

 honey room at a high temperature, ala 

 Doolittle,when it contains comb honey, 

 such a room would not be a very com- 

 fortable place in which to extract the 

 honey. Aside from this I see no objec- 

 tion to having the extracting room and 

 honey room all in one. 



As to materials used and methods of 

 building, much depends upon circum- 

 stances, and what is available in each 

 locality. I was quite interested in the 

 plan proposed by Mr. Shuck, that of 

 making the cellar and house walls of 

 cement. — Review. 



While talking about introducing 

 queens, Bro. Alley said he would show 

 us how to do it. Taking a fine, large, 

 fertile queen from a nusleus,he stepped 

 to a full colony, removed the cover, 

 and dropped her, in an unceremonious 

 manner, among the bees. We watched 

 her a few moments. The bees were 

 friendly, and she inarched straight 

 down between the combs, the reigning 

 majesty. The colony had been queen- 



less three days, and it was just the prop- 

 er time to introduce her. Much earlier 

 or much later than 72 hours would 

 have resulted differently. — Rambler, in 

 Gleanings. 



This is a good time to get hives ready 

 for your swarms for the coming season. 

 The old orthodox advice is to adopt one 

 style of hive, and stick to it, but very 

 few bee-keepers follow this advice ! 

 How many of even the big bee-keep- 

 ers follow it ? It appears to be human 

 nature for the bee-keeper to do just 

 about so much inventing in the line of 

 bee-hives before settling down to some 

 hive that was invented by a practical 

 bee-keeper, who looked after the first 

 cost of his hives. At the present price 

 of honey it hardly pays to make or buy 

 costly hives, unless you use chaff-hives. 

 I prefer the single- walled hive, I have 

 had great success in wintering bees on 

 the snmmer stands, with chaff and 

 straw protection, in common single- 

 walled hives.— M. M., in A . B. J. 



A small bee-space between top bars 

 and sections, was considered at the 

 Northern Illinois convention, of as 

 much or more conseqnence, in prevent- 

 ing brace-combs, as thick top-bars. — 

 Gleanings. 



Our friends in the south-west are 

 referred to the ad. in another column 

 of W. H. Laws. Lavaca, Ark. He 

 will mail price list of queens and sup- 

 plies for the asking. 



Clubbing List. 



We will send the \ n km w Bee Keeper with 



the— PTJBi price. BOTH. 



$1 35 

 1 15 

 1 35 



90 

 1 15 

 1 35 



American Bee Journal, 

 American Apiculturist, 

 Bee Keeper's Review, 

 Bee-Keeper's Advance cl Poul- 



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