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Supplement to February No. 1876; and Ninth Edition Circular and Price List. 



OUK PRICE IvISr FOR 1S7G. 



IffT is ih'j Till (lay of January, and wc are so full of all 

 !S[I kinds of business tliat we really liavc no time for any 

 preface.. Bee-keepers who are ready and willing to 

 work for their honey, wc believe are all busy, and arc all 

 so far as we know, roalizini; as f.iir a reward for the time 

 and capital invested, as in other kinds of business. A few 

 of the most keen and enterj)rising, are, as in all kinds of 

 business, far outstripping the rest, and it rests with yon 

 alone, my friend, to determine what place in the ranks 

 you will occujjy. Just one piece of advice ; however at- 

 tra<;tive the wares may seem that v.'e are about to describe, 

 wo would say, don't get in debt for them ; if j-oii haven't 

 (he mo7iey to purchase, don't buy until you got it. Be 

 humble and satisfled with little, and let your apiary grow 

 (if itself, and be self sustaining. I say this because I really 

 do not wish you to b3 disappointed. If you study the 

 subject and become thoroughly familiar with the bses by 

 actual work among them, both capital and boos will come 

 as fast as you are able to handle either. I want to see you 

 all prosjicr, and to do so, you must be cheerful, courageous 

 and indeijendent ; above all, don't get crazy and extrava- 

 gant if you should happen to get S25 or §50, as the proceeds 

 of one colony in a season ; i)rosperity is sometimes harder 

 to b?ar than adversity. 



Iiiipleiiit'iits foi' llie Apiai'y. 



The very lirst thing to bo I'.nisidored in talking about 

 implements, is the frame to \y used; and 1 really do not 

 know that 1 can advis ■ you all v.liat one to use, there are 

 so many cinauustniK'i's to he (Musidci-ed. If you have a 

 dozen or more hives in use, Ilia; contiiin frames all alike, 

 perhaps you hsul better koei> on witli lliem : if yon are a 

 new beginner, or have several kinds of hives all alike and 

 wish to come down to one kind. I would advise th^^ Stand- 

 ard frame, if you are goiu>j to \is;- the extractor exclusively. 

 If you want both conili tuul li((uiil honey, the tw<j story 

 Langstroth is ]X'rhaps as good as auv. If you want exclu- 

 sively comb honey, perhaps tlu; (Juinby hive will do as 

 well as any. It can also be used for the extr,ictor, but in 

 our own ai)iary it takes so much more time to take out 

 and replace the frames, that they are entirely out of the 

 (juestion. As others who use these hives largely, do not 

 agree with us, perhaps those who are not satisfied had 

 better try a Quuib.y hive with (he closed end fnnnes. As 

 the frames are so much larger than the others, fewer fire 

 requii'ed to mike a hive, and this in a measure compen- 

 sates for the loss of time in handling; besides, a Quinby 

 hive can bo made cheaper than any other. 



3\]xti'aetoi»s. 



Otic imiKvrtnnt point is that all machines to work to the 

 best advantage, shouM be s(j made tliat the fi'anie may 

 hang in tlnan just as it hangs in (he hive, if we exi-ept the 

 L. and (.J. frames, :iiid all having a length under the top 

 Ijar greater than tt inches. It may be impossible for us 

 to give all thc^ reasons for this now, but we hope you will 

 take our word for it when we say there are very g(X)d rea- 

 sons for standiniT a frame ou end in the extractor when 

 the haigth is much greater than the deptli. 



We have b;,-fin-e cxplaiiird that we liave out castings 

 made to lit two diliereut sized cans, viz., 17 and :J« inch- 

 es, and we will now further state that we make the cans 

 also, of two different height!;. To work nicely, (ho frame 

 needs about the same amount of room to hang in the ex- 

 tractor, that it has in the hi\'e ; and to do this there s raas 



to be no other way (han to make every extractor to tit (ho 

 hive it is ititended for. Of course you'can use them other- 

 wise, but we are well satisticd that the cumbrous miK'hiiies 

 now in use, are many of them destined to be soon laid 

 aside for the more modern kind. 



DIAGRAM OF TOINCIPAL FKAMKS IN U3i;. 

 Fir/icres given, are outside dimensions in inches, fias- 

 pended frames have -'^ i>u-h- s/ipporlin;/ anti.-t, or an, 

 equal prohoKjatlou Iff tap bar. 



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Qi;i.m;v. 



Closed esd Qdiney. 



The following table is for the convenience of those or- 

 dering machines, and is intended to enable any on:; to 

 dcciih^ lor himself exactly what he can use to the best 

 advantnge. 



l?i'ioe Ijist of "Kxtraclov.-ii. 



I The figures in parentheses, just before the prices, 

 give the exact inside width of the revolving frame of the 

 extractor, in inches,'] 



