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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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IMiMsc Iliaiik the kind propU 

 111 'rcimiiiN s t'linii. aii<i it'll tl 



It'CII lillllill't'il <li>ll;tr^ liiiw. 

 Iii> (-xpt'iiscs fur ihii'i' \c.ir-. 



\N III) liavi' ooiitiiluitt'fl 



■111 I lial «(• have riv'li- 



!llinii>( ciiDimli l<> |>a\ 



Suifh thfv will ail 



lie jrlatl to lu'Ki- I lii-~ >ri»i(l lu'w^ ! It will iiiake llirir 

 tiwii lives lifttcr ami liaiipicr In think that llicj 

 have liclpcd 1(1 lik'ss anil lirijriilcii a lillic cliild's 

 lifo. M.i.\ llic New Year richly fiilllll all Ihc ffood 

 wisho tiial iii\ heart hdlds for xoii, and all wlio 

 liiur hclpi'tl \mi. AllVcl ioiiatel.\ joins, 



Hklkn Kki^i.ku. 



Now, fiiiMuls. is it iitit tiuc tliat wr all feel 

 lia|ipit'f for JiaviiifKioiic this little fur Tommy? 

 Is tlieie one amoii-i lis who does not feel that it 

 has lieeii a jrood investment".' "He that giv«ali 

 (o the jioor leiuh'tii to the Lord." 



A wondeifiil and cheerinu; fact comes in right 

 here. These poor deaf. dumb, and l)lind ciiil- 

 dren have a remail<al)le faculty for hel[)ing 

 (•(ti-li otiicr. Read th(> fnliowiiig additional in 

 i"egard to Willie Kohin: 



Meaiiwliile she had made the ai'ipiaintance of 

 Kdith 'I'lionias. From tlielii>l Willie seemed >tron)L!- 

 ly attracted to her, and wli.ii. on the i:itli of.Janu- 

 aVy, Kdith went to tlie kindcijiarteii f<ir a visit (jf a 

 week, the two little tiirls were delijililed to meet, 

 ami l)ecanie almost inseparalile. Willie would fol- 

 low Edith's tveij' slep, happy in doinK just as she; 

 did; and Edith, understand iiij:- that Willie's condi- 

 tion was liki' her own. bejian to help in teaehinfi' her 

 as she had herself lieeii t.iug-ht. She was told the 

 words that Willie was ti-yinji- to learn, and gently 

 and patiently she repeated the lessons over and 

 over to Willie, and with her helj) in the g'ymnastic 

 exercises the new impil Ixaaii to behave much bet- 

 tei-, and t ried to do as the others were doing-. She 

 evidciitlj- liked to learn from Edith, and when the 

 time came for her little teacher to ret urn to South 

 Boston Willie wanted to fro too. 



You see. friends, poor little Willie took a new 

 start when she found she had a cotTirade in her 

 affliction; and Edith was enabled to do a kind 

 of teacliing that even the teacher could not do; 

 that is, she. a poor blind, deaf, and dumb child 

 could take hold of the work of educating an- 

 other fleaf and dumb child, and so really ac- 

 com|)lished things thai perhaps the teacher 

 with all her faculties could not. There is a 

 great lesson here. It is not always (tnqeU that 

 are needed to help us out of our troubles. It is 

 some child of hnmanil\ who has troubles like 

 our own. .And now we see why " (rod so loved 



his only begotten Son;" 

 1 do his work most ef- 

 im heaven and became 



the world that he gave 

 and this Son. in order ti 

 fectively, came down fn 

 one of us. 



For it became him, for wlioni are all tliinus, and 

 by whom are all things, in tiringing many sons unto 

 glory, to make the captain of their salvation pei'- 

 fect through sutfering. — Heb. 'i: 10. 



one that will be recognized as a move in the 

 right direction. Il is nothing more nor less 

 than a loose wood separator, slotli'd out as 

 shown in 1), i''igs. 1 ami :.'. 



The whole fiaternily. for the last yeaf or two, 

 hits been gradually changing over from tin to 

 loosi^ wooden separators. The reasons for this 



FIO. 1 — TIIK I-ATKST l)()VETAII>Krt HIVE. 



are obvious. Th(! wood costs from one-half to 

 one-fourth as much as Ih" tin. It is wanner— 

 that is, wood will not conduct away the heat as 

 will strips of metal running parallel through 

 the heart of the cluster. Again, the surface of 

 the tin is smooth, and bees can not readily run 

 up and down upon it. They will lh(u-efore se- 

 lect the surface of the clean, nice, white cap- 

 pings of the comb honey; and thus the latter, 

 receiving from two-thirds to three-fourths of all 

 the travel of the bees, is what is appropriately 

 called " travel-stained " Now, by using wood- 

 en separators the bees will crawl upon the 

 wood as readily as upon the cappings of the 

 comb; and this must necessarily reduce to a 

 corresponding amount the tracks of the bees 

 on the comb lioney. 



By increasing the width of the wood separa- 

 tors, we secure another and very important ad- 

 vantage. D, Figs. 1, 3. show a wooden separator 

 that is 4}., inches wide. It is wide enough to 

 cover from top to bottom the entire upright 

 edges of the sections as well as the edges of the 

 bottom slat C in Fig. 1. It should be retneiu- 

 bered that ordinary separators are only ?>}:, 

 inches wide, and consequently there is -'linch 



Recent Developments. 



By e. r. Root. 



our latest impkovkd dovetailed hive. 



What a pleasure it is to have nice accurate 

 engravinis— those that siiow every detail ex- 

 actly a.•^ 11 is in the original! We recently look 

 some i)hotographs of the Dovetailed hive and 

 its parts, with (^very thing arranged to show 

 them up to the best advantage; and how well 

 our engravers succeeded in reproducing the re- 

 sult is shown in the accomjianying figures. _ __,^_ _ 



With the exception of one item, the separator ~' ~ ~ 



D. no radical change has been made in the hive f''- -'—dovetailed srpEK with section- 

 except what we have already illustrated in re- holdi^hs. i.\ii'I!ovi;d wo(>di:.\ sei'.\kat- 



gardtothe Ilofl'man frames and the new im- "i^- koi.i.owkk .vnd wi<:doe. 



proved tin rabbets. These have been so iiniver- on the upright edges (and about as much of 

 sally accepted as improvements that no one has the horizontaJ edgesiof every .section that is 

 objected, even if it were a change. The latest left i^xpos.'d; and. w.nse than all. these expo.sed 

 change IS not one that will make any serious edges are the best place for the liees to chink in 

 inconvenience with hives already in use. but propolis; and the result is, a considerable in- 



