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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



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from the bees, take it all up. The cover 

 shown in Fig. 2 has been in use three win- 

 ters, and the surface is as smooth as it ever 

 was. To those who have never used clover 

 chaff this will seem strange; but a trial will 

 prove what I say. 



In Fig. 1 you will see two hives with su- 

 pers on. These I left all summer with the 

 chaff on, but no cover, with the result that 

 they never offered to swarm, and gathered 

 more honey than any in the yard. 



It has rained every day this summer; but 

 the chaff in those hives is dry, and I shall 

 use it again this year. Take the super off; 

 fill up with chaff; put a cover on, and let it 

 go at that. 



I have not lost a colony in three years. 

 They will winter on half the stores, and, no 

 matter how cold it gets, nor how deep the 



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A SUITABLE AND CONVENIENT BEE-DRESS FOR WOMEN. 



snow, my conscience is easy, for I know 

 they are warm. Winter before last they 

 were shut up 85 days, and came out as clean 

 as a new pin. 



In the spring, when you cellar men are 

 sitting up nights trying to solve the prob- 

 lem of just when is the time to set out the 

 bees, I am easy, for my bees know when to 

 come out, and will not come out too soon. 



The boxes cost 10 cts. each, and the cov- 

 ers 20 cts., or 30 cts. per hive, 



Pataskala, O. 



women can work with as much ease and 

 convenience as men if they haven't too 

 much false modesty. Of course, the men 

 do not know what a task it is to do outdoor 

 work in skirts. If you wish to know, just 

 try it and see the difference. You are just 

 as liable to be the center of attraction until 

 the strangeness wears away. The hands in 

 the field will stop to look at you and smile, 

 which will likely make you angry, as you are 

 all tangled up in your skirts, and bees sting- 

 ing you, and no pockets to put your tools in. 

 Then you try to arise from the position you 

 are in, and are compelled to untangle your- 

 self. Gentlemen, try the skirts once, and 

 see if you do not think my plan is all right. 

 But you know we Western women are quite 

 independent. We can vote, break bronchos, 

 round up cattle, and climb mountains; but 

 you Easterners must 

 not class us with the 

 Indians, for we are 

 quite at home in the 

 parlor with our South- 

 ern sisters, although 

 we do not use tobacco. 

 Fort Collins, Col. 



[The bee- dress for 

 Miss Goodale is sensi- 

 ble, convenient, and 

 not unbecoming. It is 

 really a travesty on 

 modern intelligence 

 and the progress of 

 the age in most things 

 that custom and socie- 

 ty demand that woman 

 must be handicapped 

 in the awful way that 

 she is in the matter of 

 dress. Bee-work, es- 

 pecially, demands for 

 woman the same de- 

 gree of convenience 

 that it does for man, 

 and we must admire 

 the courage that 

 prompts Miss Goodale 

 to cater to conven- 

 ience rather than to 



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social custom.— Ed.] 



HOW A LITTLE GIRL HANDLED BEES. 



The Results of 



One Season's Work with a 

 Wax-press. 



BY SOJOURNER. 



;.BEE-DRESS FOR WOMEN. 



BY MISS D. goodale. 



Mr. Root:— I send you a photo of my api- 

 ary and its attendant. This is not intended 

 to compete for a prize, but to show that 



This miss of only seven summers had come 

 all the way from her coast-country Califor- 

 nia home to visit her father at his apiary in 

 the Sagebrush State, and to see the bees 

 she had heard of but never seen, much less 

 handled. She expressed herself as wishing 

 that she could handle bees that way. "You 

 can, daughter," he said. "I will let you 

 do so." 



" But they will sting me," she exclaimed. 



"No, they will not if you do as I tell you. 

 Put on my veil, and wait till I get the ko- 



