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these should be such that you will have 

 an alley from 2 to 23^ feet wide through 

 the center of the room. Upon these lay 

 four 3x4 pieces, as long as your room is 

 wide, using four on each side. 



Now, lay 2x2 pieces across these last, 

 their length being the same as the 4x12 

 were, for your sections to rest upon, and 

 these should set on the sticks the same 

 as they did on the hives, having the 

 ends of the sections meet in the center 

 of these 2x2 sticks. Also, by means of 

 strips, keep the honey out 2 inches from 

 the sides of the building, so that the air 

 can circulate all around the pile of 

 honey, otherwise that next to the sides 

 of the building will sweat so as to 

 become transparent. When piled in 

 this way, the fumes of burning sulphur 

 can penetrate the whole lot, by placing 

 your burning sulphur under the pile. 



The room for the extracted-honey, I 

 would build of the same width, and 

 would have it from 14 to 18 feet long, 

 instead of 10, so as to give plenty of 

 room. The reason we have our comb- 

 honey room small is, that we may 

 sulphur our honey in as small a room as 

 possible. It is full as desirable to have 

 this room as dry and warm as the other, 

 for in a dry, airy room our extracted- 

 honey will become thicker and better all 

 the while. 



Extracted-honey can be stored in tin 

 lined vats made to suit you, in barrels, 

 kegs, or in tin cans, as preferred. By 

 placing a cloth over these receptacles, 

 the honey ripens nicely in this warm 

 room, even if the combs are not fully 

 sealed when extracted. 



With a description of how I store my 

 combs which are used for extracting 

 and other purposes, when they are not 

 in the hives, I will close : 



As you are building your honey-room, 

 have the studding on one side set just 

 as far apart as the top-bar of your frame 

 is long ; not from center to center of 

 studding, but leave that space between 

 them. Now, nail strips of % stuff, 2}i 

 feet long by 6 inches wide to these stud- 

 ding, letting them stand out into the 

 room in a horizontal position. 



Let the distance between the strips, 

 from top to top, be IK inches greater 

 than the depth of your frame, so as to 

 give you sufficient room to manipulate 

 the frames handily. Three inches from 

 the ends of these strips run a partition 

 clear across the room, which is to have 

 close-fitting, narrow doors placed in it, 

 spaced so as to be most convenient. 

 Now, hang in your combs ; see that all 

 combs not in use are in their place, and 

 not lying about somewhere else. 



As often as any signs of worms are 

 found, put in a pot of burning sulphur, 

 close the doors, and the work is done. 

 In all this work with burning sulphur, 

 be certain that nothing can by any 

 means take fire from it, before you place 

 the fire on the sulphur, for a room full 

 of sulphur fumes is a bad place in which 

 to put out a fire. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



A Paroily on tie Prodigal Son, 



M. A. KELLEY, 



A certain bee-keeper had two sons ; 

 and the younger of them said to his 

 father, " Pa, give me the portion of bees 

 that falleth to me." 



And he divided unto them his apiary. 

 And the bees were in log gums, or gum 

 logs, as was the manner of that country. 



And in the morning, ere it was yet 

 day, the young man, being a bright lad 

 with much snap in him, had the bee- 

 gums tied up in coffee sacks, and on a 

 boat, floating them down toward the 

 great Father of Waters. 



He made his dwelling place over 

 against Paducah, In the land of Daniel 

 Boone and corn whisky. Here, being a 

 good boy, he spent nothing in riotous 

 living, but kept both eyes upon his 

 apiary. 



He read the American Bee Journal, 

 and all the books he could get, so that 

 his wisdom waxed great, and astonished 

 the natives. For the people that dwelt 

 in that land round-about wist naught of 

 bees, nor whether they were governed 

 by a King, a Queen, or a Jack. 



So the boy gat unto himself much 

 gain, for honey sold well in that city. 

 And he found favor in the eyes of the 

 young maidens of the land, and, betimes, 

 took one of them unto him for a wife. 



So his apiary and his family grew and 

 multiplied greatly, and he became one 

 of the citizens of the country, and voted, 

 and ran for office, as was the custom of 

 the people. 



In the course of time, it came to pass 

 that the people of all the States round- 

 about rose up In war, one against the 

 other. And they came together in battle 

 array with their guns, and their swords, 

 and their bows of ribbon, and their 

 arrows of sarcasm, and their gin slings, 

 and their corn whisky, and all manner 

 of other deadly weapons. 



And in the "onpleasantness " the 

 young man's paternal home was wiped 



