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TBE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



them and then placed in the cellar to be 

 hived when convenient. Swarming time has 

 no more terrors for Brother Taylor. 



I most not pass over the comb leveler. 

 Every super put on this season up to this 

 date (July 24th) has been one-half filled with 

 comb on which the comb leveler has been 

 used, the balance with foundation. The comb 

 has been placed in the corners and on the 

 outside of the supers. Brother Taylor would 

 not use any foundation if he had a sufficient 

 supply of comb. The sections with combs 

 placed in the corners have been completely 

 filled before the foundation ones in the cen- 

 ter — and that, too, with nice, clean, straight 

 work. 



Bee escapes are in general use. They have 

 an opening so small that only one bee can 

 pass at a time, yet they do good work. 



Hives and frames almost numberless make 

 the Forestville apiary a museum in which 

 one may study the progress made in bee- 

 keeping for the past generation, Here every 

 new thing presented has been tried, and 

 cheerfully commended or sorrowfully con- 

 demned. Nor is it strange that, in the eager 

 search for the best, the truly good has some- 

 times for a time at least, been supplanted by 

 the new and untried, as was the case with 

 the little double hive and the wire end frame. 

 These will soon be the only hives and frames 

 used in this apiary except for experimental 

 purposes. 



Ckystal, Minn. Aug. 5, 1893. 



[After reading the above 1 saw at once that 

 pictures were needed to make the story com- 

 plete, and I wrote the same to Mr. Taylor, In 

 due time they came accompanied by the follow- 

 ing letter.— Ed. J 



T SEND you to day 

 X photographs of 

 the Forestville api- 

 ary from two points 

 of view. One of 

 them shows to good 

 advantage the house 

 apiary, two of the 

 non - swarmers and 

 the entrance to the 

 wintering cellar. 

 The yard was put in 

 just the condition 

 it would be in the active swarming sea- 

 son. The swarm catchers are seen scat- 

 ered about every where. They are a great 

 thing indeed. The two non-swarmers, one 

 with two, the other with three supers, show 

 plain enough except the entrances, which. 



for some reason, do not seem plain. There 

 are but few of the hives in the open yard in 

 this view, yet I think it would be the view 

 that would interest readers most as the house 

 apiary is attracting much thought. Yes, sir, 

 the house apiary grows in favor the longer I 

 use it. The new one is so perfect that I can- 

 not offer an improvement at present. I 

 shall build another on exactly the same 

 model. 



The first view was taken from the south- 

 west and gives a more general view, show- 

 ing the west end of the new house, the iron 

 curing house, the little house apiary, a por- 

 tion of the shop and wintering cellar (on the 

 left) while a glimpse of the dwelling is seen 

 from more in the back ground. The white 

 stripe behind the shop is the highway. The 

 revolving stand with my new solar wax ex- 

 tractor upon it can be found in front of the 

 new house apiary. There are but few of the 

 out hives visible in this scene and everything 

 seems jostled together a great deal closer 

 than they really are. Your humble servant 

 is seen sitting on the revolving stand near 

 the wax extractor, while his son sits on a 

 daisy wheelbarrow near the iron honey cur- 

 ing house. 



Forestville, Minn. Aug. 24, 1893. 



Ferseverence Has at Last Secured an Ex- 

 perimental Apiary for Vermont. 



H. W. SCOTT. 



JRIEND HUTCHINSON :— Your edi- 

 torial in the J uly Review exactly de- 

 picts the triah and difficulties to be 

 overcome in securing recognition from the 

 State authorities. Suffice it to say, that we 

 of Vermont have been through nearly the 

 same thing ; and I am happy to say have 

 been successful. 



On April 13, 1893, Mr. M. F. Crane, repre- 

 senting a committee elected at our last meet- 

 ing for the purpose of pushing our claims 

 for recognition, O. J. Lowrey, prospective 

 apiarist, F. H. Wheatley, acting apiarist, and 

 myself, appeared before the Board of Con- 

 trol of our Station and presented our case as 

 best we could. The Board heard us very 

 courteously, and the same day voted to add 

 hee-keepincj as a branch for exprimental 

 work at the Burlington experimental farm. 



We were allowed a sum sufficient to build 

 a house 10x30 feet, with one side arranged to 



