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Gl FANINGS IN HEK (ULTUKK. 



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hives are situated. A person, 

 for example, who ean lift a load 

 in a stooping ])ostnre of fifty or 

 one hundred pounds, without 

 (hmger of straiuing his ))aek, 

 would prol)al)ly not need any 

 (U'rrick. But not every one is 

 built with the sinews of a giant: 

 and we veiy often see workmen 

 who have l^een crippled fi'om 

 overlifting. when a little intelli- 

 gent application of common 

 sense would have saved a lame 

 back and not wasted any time 

 either. As my old grandfather 

 used to say, we boys needed to 

 learn how to get the advantage 

 of a load. In our last issue. G. 

 M. Doolittle showed how to lift 

 a whole super of coml)S without 

 ])Utting any strain on the i)ack. 

 But here is a case where over 

 half the hives have l)een tiered 

 up three or four stories higli. 

 and we find it necessary to get 

 into the l)rood-nest. How shall 

 we manage ''. Nothing short of 

 lifting tlie hives off one by one 

 will permit of examination of 

 the l)rood-nest unless we use a 

 derrick to susjkmuI the load at a 

 convenient height while the 

 l)rood-nest is being examine<l. 

 While the Ferris derrick is tiie 

 most expensive, it is apparently 

 the most portable and the ((uick- 

 est to apply. The other ilevit-es 

 here shown are cheaper, l)ut 1 

 should suppose would retpiire 

 more time in setting up and 

 getting ready for business. 

 ^' Some of the old veterans may 

 ridicide these lifting-ai)pliances; 

 l)ut they should not forget that 

 there are some men and a good 

 many women who are physically i 

 of doing anv heavv work in the 



3. — THE PARENT COLONY AFTEK ALL QUEEN- 

 CELLS BUT ONE ARE REMOVKL). 



nca])a 

 bee-v; 



without some simple device of the kind here 



shown. It is to this class that these ap- 



])liances will appeal. 



Possibly some honey is yet to 

 l)e taken off the hive, and prob- 

 ably a good deal of extracted. 

 \\\' should like to have those 

 wlio have such honey to take off 

 try one of these appliances and 

 report what they think of it. 



Mr. R. F. Holtermann is one 

 of the most extensive bee-keep- 

 ers on this continent. He is 

 fully six feet tali, and capal)le 

 of lifting with the average man; 

 but if he finds that a machine 

 enables him to do more and bet- 

 ti'r work witli le.ss fatigue, some 

 of the other veterans may well 

 consider whether it may not 

 be money in their ])ockets to 

 join the crowd who have less of 

 tlie giant streugth at their com- 

 luand. El).] 



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AN KNL.MJGKl) VIEW ()K 

 AM) WOHKK 



(,)Ii:kn-('KLLs: dkom: 



