GLgANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



different implements to be seen on the ta- 

 bles, and doing a general promotion work. 

 Young men were there who wished to make 

 their farm incomes greater. Students from 

 the university were there, attracted by what 

 they had learned in their courses in en!o- 

 mology; women and girls were there who 

 liked honey and were willing to help pro- 

 duce it. Some teachers and county super- 

 intendents were there, who manifested a 

 ready sympathy in the thought that boys 

 and girls might take blue libbons at school 

 fairs for honey just as well as for corn, 

 poultry, or puddings. The society gained 

 a new outlook upon its oppoi'tunities, and 

 'the prospect is highly encouraging. 

 Officers were elected as follows : 

 President, E. E. Tyler, Columbia, Mo.; 

 vice-president, Emil F. Nebel, High Hill, 



Mo. ; secretary, Austin D. Wolfe, Park- 

 ville, Mo. ; treasurer, J. E. Diemer, Liberty, 

 Mo. 



The tone of the convention was in a 

 marked degree optimistic, and the prospect 

 before the society is better defined than ever 

 before. Without entering into details it 

 may be said that the society plans to enlist 

 the co-operation of the extension depart- 

 ment and the home economics dejiartment 

 of the university, and to inaugurate a cam- 

 paign to popularize the production, con- 

 sumption, and sale of honey on the farms 

 of Missouri. A convention for next year 

 is already projected in which it is hoped 

 that an interest far greater in kind and in 

 extent than anything in the past will be 

 manifested and maintained. 



Parkville, Mo. 



A CABINET FOR HOFFMAN FRAMES 



Several years ago I vis- 

 ited a friend who gave me 

 my stai-t in the honey in- 

 dustry. While at his home 

 T noticed a chest in his 

 honey-house similar to the 

 one here illustrated. I im- 

 mediately proceeded to 

 make one like it, which has 

 about one-fourth the ca- 

 pacity of the one I now 

 present. It was not very 

 .long until it was too small, 

 so I have just completed 

 the new one. 



Following are specifica- 

 tions : 



18 pieces 1 in. by 4 in. 

 by 8 ft., used for top, bot- 

 tom, and back ; 12 pieces 1 

 in. by 4 in. by 6 ft., two 

 sides; 12 pieces, 1 in. by 1 

 in. by 6 ft., doors; 1 piece 

 1 in. by 4 in. by 14 ft., 

 braces; 1 piece 1 in. by 4 

 in. by 8 ft., braces. 



The work took me about 

 a day and a half, working 

 irregularly without any- 

 thing to go by except a 

 rough drawing I made and 

 the actual fiames. I had 

 no tools but a saw, ham- 

 mer, square, and plane. 



Waco, Texas. 



BY M. B. WHITE 



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