Comforts and Conveniences in the Apiary 



By these are meant those things not absolutely essential to success, 

 but that serve to render more smooth and pleasant the somewhat 

 "thorny" path trodden by the bee-keeper. To illustrate: Mr. H. R. 

 Boardman, cif Ohio, has a cart for carrying his bees to and from his bee- 

 cellar, with which there is no necessity for even lifting the hives to 



Boardman's Hive-cart. 



place them on the cart. It is made like a wheelbarrow with two wheels, 

 having two long prongs projecting in front. When the cart is wheeled 

 up to a hive, one prong goes one side of the hive and the other the 

 other side, when, by depressing the handles, the hive is lifted from the 

 ground. Cleats upon the sides of the hive prevent it from slipping 

 down between the projecting prongs. Then, again, Mr. J. A. Green, of 

 Colorado, has an arrangement for opening the honey-house door by 

 simply stepping upon a pedal. When both hands are occupied with 



