1894 



GLKAMxNCiS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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of all his colonies, and we proceeded toward 

 the apiary. He had lots of new fixings which 

 he wanted to show me. 



"Ah. yes, that record-book.'' sai<l I. "You 

 always have to think to pick that np before 



FIG. 1. — " I BELIEVK IN SITTING DOWN. 



you go inlo the yard. What do you do when 

 you get clear out into the apiary and lind you 

 have forgotten it?" 



"Go back and get it,'" said he, comically. 



When we were in the apiary we were 

 joined by Emma. Dr. Miller's assistant in 

 the apiary. After having lighted the Crane 

 smoker, the first thing the doctor did was to 

 go toward the hive that contained the lat- 

 est percolator Miller feeder. Anticipating 

 my visit, he had put it on the night before. 



■'And now," said he, " we shall see how it 

 works," as he deliberately and comfortably 

 seated himself on his "adjustable apiary 

 seat." 



" Ah: that is your seat, is it?" said I. 



"Yes, sir, and I always believe in sitting 

 down and taking things easy." 



I will explain to our newer readers, that 

 It is a box that is longer than wide, and 

 taller than either one of the other dimen- 

 sions. It has hand-holes cut in the several 

 sides, so that it can easily be carried. When 

 working over a tall hive it is set up the tall 

 way, and so on. \"ou see, it is adjustable to 

 the ditTerent heights. Of course, I made 

 fun of Dr. Miller for sitting down. Fig. 1, Ko 

 daked by Emma, shows him as he sat working 

 over that hive, preparing to pull the cover off. 



He pried off the cover, but found the bees 

 were not taking down thejfeed as rapidly as he 

 liad expected. Indeed, they had not even 

 found it. 

 Right h(>re it will_be unnece.ssary to give the 

 full discussion that fol- 

 lowed, as that has already 

 been in Gi.kanings re- 

 garding the percolator 

 feeders. IJut I may say 

 to you that the talk 

 was an earnest one: and 

 after we had looked over 

 the feeder on the hive we 

 wiihlrew to one side, as 

 shown in Fig. 2. Here you 

 see the doctor sitting down 

 on his favorite adjustable 

 seat, while your humble 

 servant sat on his seat — 

 his heel — and at the feet 

 of Gamaliel, as it were, as 

 he talked and explained.* 

 You see we had before us 

 a glass tumbler on a plate, 

 and between us was the 

 Crane smoker. At the 

 back of Dr. Miller was h 

 honey-house, work-shop, 

 and bee-cellar, the open- 

 ing to the latter appear- 

 ing just over his hat. As 

 you will notice, it is con- 

 venient to the apiary, 

 which is just behind me, one bordering closely 

 on the bee- cellar. Let me see. Just over the 

 peak of Dr. Miller's hat you will see something 

 that looks like brood-frames. I suspect that, 



* I was dressed, as you see, for comfort in truveb'iig- 

 — hicvcle-sweuter, Knickerbocker pants, long- stock- 

 ing-s, etc. 



