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Note — Mr. Evans is the Xational Biscuit Co.'s purchasing agent 

 at Chicago, and all their raw material of whatever nature for the 

 central west is purchased through him, so the above can be consid- 

 ered authentic. 



The Specialist and the Farmer Bee-Keeper. 



' ^\i A^l in favor of farmers keeping liees. I have done all I could 

 ^11 to help them to succeed. It is to our interest to get them 

 interested personally and financially. 

 If a man has a few stands of bees he does not rush for the 

 scythe the first bee he sees on a sweet clo^-er blossom. He does 

 not rush the spraying of fruit trees before the bloom is ready for it. 

 He does not feel that you are robbing his alfalfa field when he sees 

 a bee flying over it. He will not try to poison bees or complain if 

 one buzzes around his horse when he feeds at noon. And he does 

 not think you are getting a living ofif his farm and paying no rental, 

 as he does when he sees your honey, gathered from some source, in 

 a yard near him. Nor does he think you are getting something for 

 nothing after a season when he has to buy sugar to keep his bees 

 from starving. By all means help the farmer to keep bees ! The 

 world is large enough for us all. Tt is only the professional bee- 

 keeper who crowds in on an established bee-keeper who is to be 

 blamed, and even he may be misjudged; there may be room for the 

 newcomer also. — W. Hickox. 



Cement Hive Stands. 



By D. H. MORRIS, Springfield, Ohio. 



(A Jiiz'c stand that lasts; weighs 60 lbs. eaclu Hc-u' to make then,) 



'^^^\ S I always was a crank on ha\'ing things neat and handy. 



^^^^ not only in the apiary but elsevv^here as well, when I adopted 



the Alexander feeder I was "up a stump" for quite a while 



for a convenient way to fasten the feeders to the hi\'e. I finally 



thought out the above concrete hive stand. 



I went to two or three local cement men. and thev said the 

 stands could not be made. I said to myself they eaii be made. I 

 went out in the shop, made a set of wooden moulds and cast my first 

 stand. After it was made, I found it was going to be too heav}^ (2 

 in. at top and 3 in. at bottom), so T made new inside fixtures for the 

 forms, cutting the thickness on top from 2 in. to 1>.< in., and at the 

 bottom it was reduced from 3 in. to 2^i in. The front or alighting 



