1884 



GLEANIKGS IN BEE CULTUEE. 



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cages for bees something on the same style. 

 The block containing the candy can be seen 

 tln-ongh the wire cloth. The above cut 

 shows our cage just as it is made at the 

 present writing, and our losses during the 

 past season have been very few indeed — es- 

 pecially where no more tlian 1 lb. of bees 

 was put in a package. When we have at- 

 tempted to send U lbs. or moi-e in one cage, 

 we have had more or less ditliculty, so that 

 we liave rather decided on putting them on 

 combs in a nucleus hive where more than 1 

 lb. has to be shipped. 



OUR $:l.rtO MANDREL FOR FOOT-POWEI! SAWS. 



Instead of making the pulley on the man- 

 drel, and then a collar to liold tlie saw, we 

 now have it so arranged that tlic saw is 

 clamped directly against tlu' end of tlie ]iul- 

 ley, as is sliown above, making the mandrel 

 lighter antl stronger, and more easily made. 



Einest is so stiongly ni ta\o] of liavmg Ul 

 Simplicity hives have an entrance-board like 

 the one shown in thecutabove, tliat we have 

 had an engraving made, specially to show it 

 as it is used. No better device has evei- yet 

 been discovered for enlarging and contract- 

 ing the entrance, if I am not mistaken. 

 These entrances can be attached to any hiv(^ 

 with movable bottom — even box hives, and 

 yet the price is only 10 cts. each, or .Ss.OO per 

 hundred, made of good lumber, nicely paint- 



ed. The cut represents a very convenient 

 way of using hives for (pieen-ieai-ing. esi>e- 

 cially where your yard for bees is somewhat 

 crowded. The entrance to the nucleus lii\ es 

 should be on the opposite end from that of 

 the large hive l)eIow. The Simplicity hive 

 makes a very convenient seat when you are 

 opening and examining nuclei. A Concord 

 can be easily trained to frjvt' about the ap- 

 pearance of the one iiictured. and the grapes 

 as well as the foliage ought to l;e there dur- 

 ing the pi-oixr season. 



THE ONE-PIECE SEtTIOX, AND THE WAV IT IS PITT 

 TOGETHER AND PLACED IN THE AVIDE FRAMES. 



The above is so well known, the picture 

 scarce needs an exi)lanation. 



MACHINE FOR MAKIN(i (>MM'n:( i; SKiTIONS. 



Since no one, however tiuiid, n<'ed beany 

 longer frightened l)y a buglicar in the sliape 

 of a patent on the one-piece sections, we 

 shall prohahly sell a great numlterof the ma- 

 chines jiictured above. The whole machine 

 complete, nicely i>aiuted, with it saws, calla- 

 ble of making sections i! inches wide, is only 

 s;;(),(i(), and a discount of 10 iier cent will be 

 made on all oideis received this fall. This 

 same discount will ai)ply to the machine for 

 scoring sections. 



SiMPi.K rn iiek-kim:i)EI{. 



Our customers iiiav, perhajis, be aware 

 that the Simitlicity rtee-feeders as wi» now 

 send them out are "not exactly as illustrated 

 in our inice list. 'J'he above (lit, liowever, 

 shows it exactly as made at present. They 

 hold just about liaif a pint each, and, if I am 



