1878 



GLEANIN<^5S m BEE CTLTUKE. 



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NOVICE'S APIARY. 



^<pOU see it was a hot day wiieu the pho- 

 ^ to^vapher eaiiie down, and. worst of 

 ' all, he direeted ns to stand facing him, 

 and facing the snn over his shoidder. Mrs. 

 R., Miss Maud, Master Ernest, and the Blue 

 Eyedjjaby, were all marshaled forth. 



"But papa, we cannot look right at the 

 sun, said the children.'' 



''Yes, you must look at it just a minute,'' 

 said papa. 



Your iiumble servant, who stands over by 

 the door (by the way. the engraver has giv- 

 en a remarkably good likeness of him), found 

 no difficulty in looking at the sun, for he 

 rather enjoys having it strike directly on his 

 bald-head, ev(>n at noon day, in the sunnner 

 time. Miss Maudie did very well, but Er- 

 nest held down his iiead, either because the 

 sun troubled him, or because he w^as bashful. 



All were looking at tlie photograph man so 

 intently, that "Blue Eyes'' was forgotten' 

 until manmia discovered that she had pulled 

 her little, dainty, white sun bonnet down 

 over her eyes so she ccndd not see at all, and 

 then her frantic efforts to get it off canu' 

 pretty near upsetting the whole party, right 

 in "meetin' time."' If she hadnt a right to 

 view the whole proceedings, as well as the 

 rest, I would like to know who had. The 

 engraver has by some means left the baby, 

 in her predicanieut, entirely out of sight, al- 

 though lier carriage is plainly visible. The 

 honey extractor stands near by, the spade 

 leans against the door at Novice's side, tlie 

 spring scales that show how much honey 

 ccunes in every day are at his back, a Sim- 

 plicity hive turned on its side near by, tlie 

 camp chair at a little distance, and all the 

 surroundings that help to make it "our 

 home" scattered about. 



A VIEW OF A PART OF OUR OWN HEXAGONAL APIARY. 



You can see how we tix the sawdust about 

 the hives, how we kee]) down all the grass 

 and weeds, and how the grape vine trellises 

 are arranged, although the engraver forgot 



to show the opening clearly, in the trellises, 

 by the side of the straight row of two stoiy 

 Sini])licity hives. The R. R. track is iiardly 

 visible, although the extractor is on the car. 



