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taken off. I can take it off in twelve 

 seconds. One motion for each glove, 

 another to loosen the string at the waist, 

 then reach over the shoulder, catch hold 

 of the back and jerk the whole dress off, 

 and there you are ! 



If you should read as far as this, I 

 Would like to have you try this dress next 

 season, and, if worth publishing, do so, 

 but 1 do not wish my name mentioned. 



Some of the pictures showing Alexan- 

 der's head-dress, show a cover over the 

 back of the neck and the sun shining ir 

 the eyes. To me, both are objectionable 



It may be that I think more of this 

 dress than any one else would. 1 am 

 over 70. and easily get "rattled.'" Before 

 I had this dress, I would put off attending 

 to the bees when I knew I ought to, be- 

 cause 1 could not go at the work confident 

 that I would not be stung — perhaps 

 enough to drive me away. Now I attend 

 to the work when it should he done. Be- 

 fore, I was completely exhausted when my 

 work was done, and often said that I 

 wanted no more baes than I then had- 

 Now I propose to double the number the 



coming season, though I do not want to 

 tell you how few I would then have for 

 fear your mouth would not stand the 

 strain. 



If you cannot get the kind of giove 

 mentioned, I will send you a pair (no 

 charge), as they please me much better 

 than anything else I have tried. 



There is just one point in which I tnink 

 I could improve this dress; I sometimes 

 have a little difficulty in seeing eggs in 

 the cells. 1 would improve this by putting 

 in a glass. In an old dress I made, I had 

 one. It was put in quite firmly, but I had 

 to take it out as the moisture from my 

 breath settled on the glass. I cut a glass 

 of the size I wished, filed off the sharp 

 edges, and then sev/ed a wide tape around 

 the edge stretching it very tightly and 

 having it lap over on both sides of the 

 glass. Where the corners were turned 

 the tape made a lap which was sewed 

 together. This tape was to have some- 

 thing to which to sew when fastening the 

 glass in its place. 



Auburn, N. Y., March 4, 1907. 



Helpful Hints in Extensive 

 Bee-Keeping. 



E. D. TOWNSEND. 



I 



sectional honey house is set up at 

 each yard. Sometimes we build them 

 at the yard; oftener they are built at 

 hom.e, out of season, then in the spring 

 they are 'oaded on a wagon and drawn 

 to the ou'.-yards. We try and place them 

 on the lowest side of the yard, so as to 

 wheel our loads of honey down hill. If it 

 is possible wi<"hout wheeling too much up 

 hill, we set the honey house door as near 

 the middle of the yard as we can. This 

 makes th honey house nearer the bees, 



thus facilitating the wheeling in of our 

 crop of honey. 



Our bee yards never have more than 

 100 colonies at a time; and this is fall- 

 count. With this number, fall-count, we 

 usually have, after our winter losses and 

 queenless colonies are deducted, some- 

 where between 80 and 90 colonies with 

 which to commence the season. 



We find a 12x16 foot house as large as 

 we can load and draw handily, without 

 going to the expense of making the sec- 



