ILLUSTRATIONS. 



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Plate I. Experimental apiary at A. and M. College Frontispiece 



Plate II. Worker, queen and drone 23 



Fig. 1. Queen's egg 24 



Fig. 2. Ten frame dove-tailed hive 25 



Fig. 3. Hoffman self-spacing frames 25 



Fig. 4. Method of inserting foundation 26 



Fig. 5. Foundation roller 26 



Fig. 6. Bee-veil 27 



Fig. 7. Corneil smoker 27 



Fig. 8. Handling frames first position 29 



Fig. 9. Handling frames second position 29 



Fig. 10. Hive stand 30 



Fig. 11. Combined bottom board and hive stand 30 



Fig. 12. Two-frame honey extractor 32 



Fig. 13. Bingham honey knife 32 



Fig. 14. Doolittle solar wax extractor 32 



Fig. 15. Porter bee escape 32 



Fig. 16. Division board feeder 35 



Fig. 1 7. Bee- way section 36 



Fig. 18. Hoffman shallow extracting frame 36 



Fig. 19. Shipping case for sections 39 



Fig. 20. Shipping case for extracted honey 39 



Fig. 21. Root-German steam wax press 41 



Fig. 22. Queen cells 42 



Fig. 23. Manum's swarm catcher 43 



Fig. 24. Alley queen and drone trap 45 



Fig. 25. Entrance guard 45 



Fig. 26. Japanese buckwheat 51 



