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Why Not a I approve a bottom- 



Good Idea? b o a r d w h o s o lloor- 



boanl slants down- 

 ward from the back to the front. The foun- 

 dation walls are % inch deeper than the 

 Root verticals. The floor boards are % inch 

 instead of %. The grooves are cut in the 

 side walls at such an angle that the clear- 

 ance at the back of the board is % inch, and 

 at tlic front IV^. This drop of % is suffi- 

 cient to carry away all moisture. In pack- 

 ing bees for winter in quadruple cases it is 

 desirable to have the hives fit snugly back 



DIFFERENT FIELDS 



to back. It is also desirable to have the 

 floor boards slant sufficiently to drain away 

 the condensation within the hives. Both 

 of these desirable conditions can not be met 

 with the floor boards now on the market. 

 Hives on their summer stands must be tilted 

 forward to drain away moisture during 

 heavy rains. Hives whicli are out of verti- 

 cal, either way, present an appearance which 

 is not so pleasing to the ej'e as when set 

 with tlicir lines horizontal and perpendicu- 

 lar. So, this bottom-board. 



Columbus, 0. F. B. Moore. 



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Locations. — By Bill Mellvir 



(Wilh Aiioloiiics to Wait M^isoii. i 



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I travol east. I travel west, to fliid loca 

 tions tiiat are best; but everywhere 1 try 

 my luck it seems the flowers all have struck. 

 I travel north, I travel soutii, but beemen 

 talk of floods and drouth; of weather bum 

 and flowers in liloom with nothing in them 

 but perfume. In irrigation 's early days I 

 got the Colorado craze; but insects came 

 to eat the bloom, which busted up my 

 Pike's Peak boom. I took my bees to I<hi- 

 ho where acres of alfalfa grow, but others 

 thouglit I had a snap and crowded me clear 

 off tiie maj). I moved to Yakima from 

 there and found beekeepers in despair, for 

 beemen by the score had heard that this 

 location is a bird. A beeyard every half a 

 mile has come to be the western style; so 

 each beekeeper has a gun to keep infringers 

 on the run. I then trieil (,'alifornia sage 

 where big crops once were all the rage; 

 but seasons dry came thick and fast, whi(di 



put nil' oil the liliiik at last. liii|KTial Val- 

 ley temiited me below the level of the sea, 

 but there the sun's lierce burning rays soon 

 cured me of the desert craze*. I settled in 

 the Lone Star State to gather sweets from 

 horsemint great, but natives talked of sea- 

 sons bum and said, ' ' the worst is yet to 

 come." In Florida the tupelo looked like 

 the stuff to make the dough; but, say, I am 

 a prudent skate and I know when to pull 

 my freight. I~came back home where clov- 

 ers grow, where winters reek with ice and 

 snow, where rains or drouth in summer time 

 make this the punkest kind of clijne. I 

 search in vain for elimates grand where 

 beastly weather has been canned; where 

 flowers are spilliug grub for bees, and sil- 

 ver bones grow on the trees. I travel up, 

 I travel down, but come right back to my 

 old town, for each location on the map has 

 some unpleasant thing on tap. 



