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own hive bodies, covers, bottoms, supers, frames, hive stands, etc. 

 Nothing pleases me more than beautifully made hives, but I must 

 confess that some of them are home made. One carpenter bee- 

 keeper in western Colorado had some home made dove-tailed hives 

 that you would not have distinguished from factory made if you had 

 not been told. The man who cannot make at least some of his 

 goods will not make a very good bee-keeper. Of course many will 

 think it , will not pay them, and I will not quarrel on this score for 

 they can judge their own cases best. — AV. F. 



D. Everett Lyon, in Farm Jonrnal, says to keep the temperature 

 of bee cellars above 45° and below 65°. Pretty wide range, I should 

 judge. Better keep it between 40 and 50, I should say, but then it 

 all depends. I don't want any cellared bees in my locality, any- 

 way. — W. F. 



George Taylor, one of our members in Montezuma county, and 

 apiary inspector for that county, has a cement cellar eighteen by 

 twenty-one feet for the storage of honey and supplies. An elevator 

 that will hold a wheel-barrow load of honey right from the apiary 

 is installed. Another feature is that the elevator may be loaded in 

 the cellar and the load raised to the level of a wagon bed on the 

 surface. A back saver; more of us might copy the idea. — W. F. 



Comb Honey by the Pound or Section. Which? 



Mr. R. A. Burnett says that comb honey is bought by the pound 

 and not by the section. Last winter I talked with two Chicago gro- 

 cers who told me of buying comb honey at 19c ; $4.50 a case. It was 

 not bought by the pound nor sold that way. It would dispel the 

 distrust of commission men by the bee men if this were cleared up. 

 Are these two instances I have mentioned exceptional or are they 

 the rule? The bulk of western comb honey is sold by the case to 

 the dealers ; do they turn it over to wholesalers by the pound or by 

 the case? With some shipments it would make no difference, but 

 with others it would. — W. F. 



How tp Reach the Average Bee-Keeper. 



The Extension Division of the Colorado Agricultural College 

 issues a weekly "News Notes" sheet, that circulates among all the 

 county papers of the state and many outside. These news items 

 are of [practical import to all farmers, containing results of experi- 



