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THE BEE-KEEPERS' JtiEVIEW. 



Experiences and Views at the Forestville 



Apiary. — Great Success with the 



House Apiary. 



E. K. JAQUES. 



Here's the home wliere I stay — 

 And a gown that was Sal's kinder flapped 



on abay — 

 Not nuicli for a man to be loving, but his 



all, as I've hearn people say. 



[When Mr. Barnet Taylor, in a private letter, 

 informed me that he had had for a student the 

 past sea.son a gentleman who was makng a 

 thorough study of apiculture, I at onoe wrote 

 him ^ that I should be very glad of that gentle- 

 man's views and experience as found at the 

 Forestville apiary. In a few days there came to 

 hand the following, very neatly written.— Ed. | 



LINE of white pine trees, whose tops 

 spread forty -two feet, line the road 

 side. South of these trees, with a 

 fine grass plat in front, stands the modest 

 yet pleasing dwelling of Brother B. Taylor. 



comb-leveler, and in fact every thing found 

 in a well appointed apiary ; and the visitor's 

 admiration for the work turned out from 

 this shop will only be excelled by that which 

 he will have for the man when he learns that 

 the machinery itself, unsurpassed in adapt- 

 ability to work, in finish and quality, has all 

 been made by one and the same hand — 

 brother Taylor's. In the Forestville apiary 

 there are no warped nor leaky covers, nor 

 poor joints. 



Fifty feet south [to the right in the cut — 

 Ed. J of the shop on a gently rising slope 

 stands the iron • honey house and the two 

 house apiaries. [The new house apiary is 

 the larger — Ed.] These buildings like all 

 the others on the place are neat ; nd well 

 kept. 



To me the house apiary was the center of 

 attraction. In fact a desire to study its 



THE APIARY OF liAHNET TAYLOK, FOKESTVILLE, MINNESOTA. 



On its right [at the left in the cut, this view 

 being taken from the rear of the building. 

 — Ed.] and in line with it stands another 

 building having the appearance of a dwell- 

 ing, it is the shop, being one of the attrac- 

 tions at the Forestville Apiary. In it are 

 made the Taylor handy bee-hive, his bee- 

 escapes, honey - boards, swarm - catchers, 



workings at brother Taylor's expense led me 

 to pass a few weeks as a student at the For- 

 estville apiary. 



The first point scored by the house bees 

 over those in the yard was this, — they built 

 up faster in early spring thus becoming 

 strong in numbers in time for the clover har- 

 vest. There were two reasons, I think, for 



