FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



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iuiproveuients at all, so they were east aside. A few, how- 

 ever, have stood the test; the JMiller feeder and the Miller 

 introducing- cage having become standard articles on the price- 

 lists, while bottom-starters, the robber-cloth, bottom-board, and 

 some other things have had from my brother beekeepers a 

 reception of which I have no reason to complain. While the 

 tendency toward something different needs to be kept in bounds 



Fig. 23 — Coggshall Bee-hrush. 



it would be a sad thing if no changes had been made, and we 

 were set back just where we were a quarter or half a century 

 ago. 



GETTING COMBS BUILT DOWN TO BOTTOM-BARS. 



"While upon the subject of frames, I may as well tell how 

 I manage to have them entirely filled with straight combs which 

 are built out to the end-bars and clear down to the bottom-bars, 

 a thing I experimented upon for a long time before reaching 

 success. The foundation is cut so as to make a close fit in 

 length, and the width is about half an inch more than the inside 

 depth of the fi-ame. The frame is all eouiplete e.xcepi that one 



