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which serves us a duniiny. This is used to 

 hold back swarming. Above this is, the 

 hive-body and one super, but there is room 

 for three supers. 



In Fig. 3 are shown some smaller lour- 

 frame hives like Pratt swarniing-))oxes, in 

 which the nuclei are started and the (pieens 

 mated. 



Mr. Eddowes is just outside the cit>' ol' 

 Kingston, where the land is mostly culti- 

 vated, so that it is not considered a gt)od lo- 

 cality; but his crops are above the average. 

 There is no comparison between his neat 

 and well-kept apiary and the average bee- 

 yard at Jamaica with bees in kerosene-caso 

 hives. 



No one could have been more royally re- 

 ceivetl or delightfully entertained than I 

 was during those visits, and in the evening 

 we sat on the front porch and talked bees, 

 for Mr. Kddowes is always willing to tell his 

 fellow^ bee-keei)ers what he knows; and if 

 his ideas were i)ublished they would make 

 a \aluable addition to the works on bee cul- 

 ture. 



Yonkers, N. Y. 



BEE-KEEPING IN NEW ZEALAND. 



BY J. S. COTTERELL. 



Tnder separate cover I am sending some 

 l)hotos of my apiary, which I trust may 

 prove of interest to the readers of (iLKAN- 

 iNCiS. The ai)iary is planted with i)eac!i- 



GEO. K. HILTON. 

 Died July 13, 1911. See (_)ur Homes tliis issue. 



trees, with shelter-belts of wattle and gum 

 trees giving an almost constant slow flow 

 of honey the year round. The main cro]) 

 of honey is gathered from white clover. 



S": 



A FINK FIELD OF WHITE CLOVER IN IOWA. 



On ij. 857, June 15, you say you will have an engraving of a Texas clover-lield. Place this beside it 

 and see which is the better one. White clover does not yield honey this year. The crop will be short. 



Strawberry Point, Iowa, June 23. H. E. Koth. 



[The Texas picture of white clover was published on page 397 of our issue for July 1. "Sour picture 

 shows a better Held.— Ed.] 



