A TEAR'S WORK IN AN OUT-APIARY 



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CHAPTER XI. 



It is now October 10th, and one of those beautiful clear days with 

 enough of smoke and "haze" in the atmosphere to give a balmy air, 

 which makes one of our fall days in New York so delightful. The 

 leaves, which are soon to fall from the trees, all gorgeously arrayed in 

 their many-dyed hues, are made more enchanting to the eyes by being 

 "kissed" by the morning sunshine — surely a splendid day for an auto 

 ride; and, to combine pleasure with profit, Mrs. D. and myself are soon 

 traveling at an easy "pace" toward the out-apiary, breathing the health- 

 ful ozone of an autumn day, and feasting our eyes on the ever varying 

 changes of the landscape before us. We go on a roundabout road, in- 

 stead of the direct one usually traveled, so as to see new scenes; but 

 even this, and with the gait of the auto so slow that I, the driver, need 

 not be very closely confined to the chauffeur part of the matter, causes 

 us to arrive at our destination all too soon. Mrs. D. goes in ot have 

 an agreeable hour with the farmer's wife, while I hie me away to the 



MousE-PEooF entrance; 5-8 mesh; bottom-boaed wintbe side up; hive- 



PASTENEE WITH STAPLES. 



bee-yard, the most delightful spot in all the world to me except my 

 home, the Sunday-school, and the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. 



With a swinging motion of the hands and forearms, together with 

 a sort of backward bend, while the elbows are on the knees, hive No. 1, 

 row 1, is "swung" from its stand to the ground, immediately by the 

 stand's side. A reserve bottom-board is now placed on the stand, 

 winter or deep side up, when a right-sized piece of galvanized wire cloth 

 having a %-inch mesh (the same being used as a mouse-guard) is 

 slipped into the saw-kerf made for it on the inside edge of the two-inch 

 strips, which holds the hive that far from the board below. A few 



