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nailed up and down. Each alternate 

 board has a bee-entrance cut in it. Up 

 to each entrance I push a hive so snugly 

 that no bees can get into the house to 

 bother with at work with them. 



I enter the house from the south end. 

 At the north end there is nothing except 

 a small opening for ventilation in the 

 very hottest weather. About three feet 

 from the house I have a row of grape- 

 vines that I throw entirely over the 

 house, making a complete shelter during 

 the hottest weather, and it looks like 

 one massive grape-arbor with an en- 

 trance at the south. 



I run my apiary for comb honey, and 

 place tho sections on top of the hives ; 

 as fast as filled, or nearly so, I raise 

 them up, and on goes another super. On 

 some of them I have had 120 sections, 

 and others, upon which I used large 

 sections, gave me over 130 pounds of 

 fine comb honey. 



In comparing the house to the car, I 

 ought to have said, " all but the glass," 

 as I use no windows, no screens or light 

 of any kind. When I shut the door it 

 is dark as night. If the bees come in 

 the door when I am at work, I close the 

 screen door, and go on with my work. 

 — Canadian Bee Journal. 



Some Side-Tracked Bee-Keepera. 



The Rambler, in his travels, has many 

 times been run off upon a side-track to 

 let another train pass ; but as I watched 

 the other train, all at once that would 

 apparently stop and my train would be 

 the one apparently going ; and how 

 nicely our train did glide without a 

 a tremor ! But just as I began to rejoice 

 at the smooth and rapid rate we were 

 going, the trains parted, and, behold I 

 hadn't been moving at all. Now, there 

 is a little moral to this. A great many 

 people imagine they are on the train, 

 and t.oing like Jehu, when, in fact, they 

 are side-tracked, and are standing stock 

 still. 



Every now and then some one will 

 aris'", and, right in the face of all the 

 brilliant lights in the bee-world, and the 

 testimony of thousands not so brilliant, 

 will advocate black bees and box-hives. 

 That man is perhaps honest, but he is 

 side-tracked, and seems incapable of 

 getting on to the main line where the 

 progressive movement is. 



The bee-keeper who uses little, stingy 

 starters of foundation in his brood- 

 frames and sections, and claims that he 

 can get just as much honey as the one 



using full sheets, is also standing on th» 

 side-track. 



The bee-keeper who will go to a con- 

 vention, smile, and shake hands all 

 around, learn all he can and not become 

 a member of the organization, and help 

 with the usual fee, is not only on the 

 side-track, but is on the dirt train (ex- 

 ceptions, visitors from another associa- 

 tion). On the same train is the man 

 who gets all he can out of a bee-paper, 

 then refuses to pay for it. 



Some veteran bee-keepers are strongly 

 inclined to pitch into their brethren with 

 a pen dipped in the gall of bitterness, 

 because of a little difference of opinion. 

 Their train was side-tracked in the sev- 

 enties. Let's keep them there. 



Those far-western bee-keepers who 

 put up their honey in bad-smelling, sec- 

 ond-hand kerosene cans are not only 

 side-tracked, but they are trying to side- 

 track all on the main line. 



Those fellows using glucose are the 

 ones not exactly side-tracked, but they 

 are tampering with the switch. Look 

 out, there ! skedaddle ! there's going to 

 be a collision ! 



But the queerest case of this kind is 

 where a whole train-load of bee-keepers 

 in Canada were side-tracked because one 

 or two inquisitive men examined the 

 road and found that the rails were in- 

 corporated to the ties with Illinois 

 spikes. Toot ! toot ! all aboard ! For 

 the land's sake, let us keep on the main 

 line. — Rambler, in Gleanings. 



Sweet Corn and Golden-Rod. 



This morning the bees were sucking 

 the sweet juice secreted at the axils of 

 the leaves of sweet corn close to the 

 stalks. Pollen from the tassels in fine 

 powder is filling the air. Some persons 

 jump at conclusions quickly, and, be- 

 cause they have never seen bees work 

 upon corn, say that they never do. Soil, 

 as well as climate, exerts its influence 

 upon plants in the secretion of nectar, 

 and while a plant may yield largely in 

 in one locality, it may be of no value for 

 honey in another. Where the nights 

 are cool, as in the Green Mountains of 

 Vermont, the golden-rod yields much 

 honey, and the heads of bloom are full 

 of bees at such times ; but here, where 

 the nights are wa.-ra during its blooming, 

 it yields sparingly. — Mrs. L. Harrison, 

 in Prairie Farmer. 



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