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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



trated and described in a late issue of 

 Gleanings. Here is what Mr. Hand 

 says: — 



As we do not handle brood-frames, 

 and as all our manipulations will be by 

 hives, it is advisable to use some kind of 

 hive-lifting device. Some are inclined to 

 ridicule the idea of such an invention, and 

 claim that it is more work to move a 

 machine of this kind about the apiary 

 than to handle the hives; however, in 

 manipulating the sectional hives for 

 swarm control some kind of hive-handling 

 machine is a positive necessity, and we 

 are using with much satisfaction a very 

 simple affair that is both rapid ana easy 

 of operation; and at the same time is 

 light and will adapt itself to uneven 

 ground. 



The illustration will help to make our 

 description plain. The clamp is made 

 like two pairs of ice-tongs, connected by 

 a bar at each side. Blunt teeth on the 

 inside prevent any slipping. The jaws 

 open wide enough to drop down over the 

 hive. A tightening of the rope will close 

 the jaws across the ends of the hive, and 

 a slight pull on the hoisting-rope will 

 quickly raise the heaviest hive, and a self 

 locking device on the rope will hold the 

 hive in any position, when it can be in- 

 stantly raissd or lowered, or held in posi- 

 tion by a quick jerk of the rope outward 

 to lock it and inward to release it. 



This device is also very handy in weigh- 

 ing hives when preparing them for win- 

 ter, and also during the honey-flow to see 

 how much gain our colonies are making. 

 Simply hook on a pair of spring balance 

 scales and we can weigh a hive very 

 quickly and easily. 



We would not think of doing without 

 some kind of a hive-lifter; and the one 

 here shown is both light and easy of op- 

 eration, and can instantly be adjusted to 

 any part of the hive or supers. A man 

 can, with this device, easily raise 600 lbs. 

 and can with one hand easily raise the 

 h3aviest hive. We find that lifting hives 

 and supers a i day is hard work; and 

 while some may be able to perform such 

 labor, there are many others who are not, 

 and it is to such as these (and this in- 

 cludes ourselves) that this invention will 

 be of real value. 



The tripod weighs only 1 5 lbs., and the 

 clamp and pulleys 8 lbs., and the clamp 

 can be unhooked when moving, so that it 

 is necessary to lift only 13 lbs., which is 

 but little more than the weight of the box 

 chat we have to carry about to set the 

 supers CO while manipulating the brood- 

 chamber. As our hives are in groups 



of four we find that we can manipulate 

 hives and supers more rapidly, and very 

 much easier, than to lift them by main 

 strength. Indeed, the heaviest work in 

 the apiary is by this invention actually 

 red'iced to mere child's play. 



YOUR LIFL-WORK. 



What Comes From the Spirit in Which It 

 is Done. 



What a thrill of pleasure there is comes 

 to a man when he finds his own unex- 

 pressed ideas written out sharply and 

 clearly, hence you can easily imagine my 

 feelings when reading the editorial in 

 Success from which I copy the follow- 

 ing:— 



It ought not to be necessary to ask a 

 man if he likes his work. The radiance 

 of his face should tell that. His very 

 buoyancy and pride in his work, the spirit 

 of unbounded enthusiasm and zest, ought 

 to show that. He ought to be so in love 

 with his work that he would find his 

 greatest delight in it; and this inward joy 

 should light up his whole being. 



A test of the quality of the individual is 

 the spirit in which he does his work If 

 he goes to it grudgingly, like a slave under 

 the lash; if he feels the drudgery in it, if 

 his enthusiasm and love for it do not lift 

 it out of commonness and make it a de- 

 light instead of a bore, he will never 

 make a very great place for himself in 

 the world. 



The man who feels his life-yoke galling 

 him, who does not understand why the 

 bread-and-butter question could not have 

 been solved by one great creative act, in- 

 stead of every man's being obliged to 

 wrench everything he gets from nature 

 through hard work, the man who does 

 not see a great beneficent design and a 

 superb necess'ty in the principle that 

 every one should earn his own living — has 

 gotten a wrong view of life, and will never 

 get the splendid results out of his vocation 

 which were intended for him. 



The man who does not look upon his 

 vocation as a great unfolding, enlarging, 

 cultivating, educative, elevating process — 

 the results of which could come in no 

 other possible way has made a very 

 poor guess of life's riddle. 



Multitudes of peopi^.-. do not half respect 

 their work. They look upon it as a dis- 

 agreeable necessity for providing bread 

 and butter, clothing and shelter— as un- 



