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ter packing. Leave the bottom boards of yotir hives on, and put a little 

 sawdust under them. A bee-house is useful if it has a large window in the 

 floor, for all operations that require to let the bees out in a room; then they 

 fly to the window and get in bunches at its bottom near the floor, and when 



iip„j, |,|,|l|,,rp,. ,. you are through with the changes 



i /Jllliilllllllll^^^^^ !° \^. "^^d^; t^ey go c'^sily i^to 



the hive. Make a tin reeling mar 



chine; reel out your honey; put 

 it in neat glass packages; make 

 holes on the side of your old- 

 fashioned box hives, and get 

 boxes everywhere — that is the se- 

 cret of non-swarming; and make 

 winter packing sheds as we have 

 told you. 



^ Bee Fanning in Australia. 



^ — We present herewith a very in- 

 S teresting article on the subject of 

 g bee farming, as practiced in New 

 03 South Wales, Australia, where, 

 g as will be seen, the industry is 

 H carried on on a very extensive 

 o scale. The article is carefully 

 M illustrated and the methods em- 

 o ployed plainly described, and we 

 00 trust that all who take an interest 

 h" in the subject of bee keeping may 

 p gain some valuable hints and 

 § suggestions from a perusal of the 

 H same. 



M The operations in bee culture 



^ going on in Paramatta are well 

 g deserving of being ranked as bee 

 farming. They are caiTied on 

 W after the most approved system 

 of the German apiarians, which 

 differa only in the form of hive 

 used and a few minor details 

 from the approved system fol- 

 lowed in Britain and America. 

 But to get at the history of the 

 company whose operations we 

 illustrate: It appears that, in 

 December, 1881, a skilled bee 

 master, Wilhelm Abram, arrived 

 in Sydney from Germany, where 

 bee culture is a recognized indus- 

 try and subsidized by the State, and is under the care of scientific entomolo- 

 gists, for the puri)osc of teaching the art of bee culture to those desirous of 

 making it their study, and at such an institution Mr. Abram was trained. 

 Before leaving Germany he purchased some of the prize swarms at an exlii- 

 bitioQ of Italian bees iu Germany, and the Italian Bee Company commenced 



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