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attached to unnecessary and inconvenient 

 places, and for many similar pm-poses. If one 

 has a small box or can in which to drop all stray 

 bits of wax he will keep his frames in enough 

 better condition to make his work much easier 

 and pleasanter, while at the same time saving 

 eijough wax that would otherwise go to waste 

 to pay for the tool many times over. 



Bee-Escapes Should Also be Included 

 IN Even a Small Outfit. — It is so easy to 

 remove surplus honey from the hive by the use 

 of bee-escapes that they are a practical neces- 

 sity. These are of different kinds, but the 

 principle is the same. The bees are able to go 

 down but cannot return. By placing a honey- 

 board containing an escape under a super the 

 bees are all down in the hive below within a few 

 hours, and the super can be lifted off and the 

 honey removed without any annoyance of fight- 

 ing bees (Fig. 3). If the super is taken off 

 without using an escape it will be full of bees 



