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Fig. 39. Standard ten-frame Lanstroth hive for extracted honey 1388 



Fig. 40. Standard Langstroth hive for comb honey 1388 



Fig. 41. Hoffman frame 1389 



Fig. 42. Detail of Hoffman frame 1389 



Fig. 43. Queen excluder 1390 



Fig. 44. Queen excluder metal 1390 



Fig. 45. Bee escape 1391 



Fig. 46. Bingham bee smoker 1391 



Fig. 47. A good bee veil 1392 



Fig. 48. Root's hive tool 1393 



Fig. 49. Queen 1395 



Fig. 50. Worker 1395 



Fig. 51. Drone 1395 



Fig. 52. Egg of queen bee highly magnified 1395 



Fig. 53. Drone and worker comb 1396 



Fig. 54. Brood in different stages of development 1396 



Fig. 55. Natural built queen cells 1397 



Fig. 56. Bees building natural comb 1398 



Fig. 57. Drone trap 1399 



Fig. 58. A convenient tool box 1400 



Fig. 59. Handling of frames 1401 



Fig. 60. Wright's introducing cage 1403 



Fig. 61. Queen cage 1404 



Fig. 62. Queen cell cage 1404 



Fig. 63. Fastening foundation in wired frames 1408 



Fig. 64. Hershiser wax press 1413 



Fig. 65. Brushing bees from comb with German brush 1418 



Fig. 66. Manner of using the CoggshaU bee brush 1418 



Fig. 67. Board containing bee escape 1419 



Fig. 68. Cowan reversible extractor 1420 



Fig. 69. Root's steam uncapping knife 1420 



Fig. 70. Bingham improved uncapping knife 1420 



Fig. 71. Root's reversible power honey extractor 1420 



Fig. 72. Comb honey in shipping case 1421 



Fig. 73. Comb honey cases packed in carrier for shipment 1422 



Fig. 74. Basswood in bloom 1447 



Fig. 75. Apiary of D. W. Trescott, Conesus 1449 



Fig. 76. Apiary of F. W. Alexander, Delanson 1451 



Fig. 77. Interior of F. W. Alexander's honey extracting room 1453 



Fig. 78. Home apiary of George B. Howe, Black River 1455 



Fig. 79. An out-apiary of W. D. Wright 1457 



Fig. 80. Apiary of Miss Hettie E. Hoffman, Canajoharie 1459 



Fig. 81. An example of tiering up, in apiary of Geo. B. Howe, Black River. . 1461 



Fig. 82. Apiary of Frank Hirunan, Gallupville 1463 



Fig. 83. Home apiary of D. L. Woodward, ClarksviUe 1465 



Fig. 84. Home apiary of W. D. Wright, Altamont 1467 



Fig. 85. Apiary of P. W. Stahlman, West Berne 1469 



Fig. 86. Fiat forty horsepower auto truck adapted to the business of honey 



production 1471 



Fig. 87. House apiary of F. H. Loucks, Lowville 1473 



Fig. 88. Apiary of H. E. Gray, Ft. Edward 1475 



Fig. 89. Apiary of D. C. Stahlman, Knox 1477 



Fig. 90. Apiary of George Carey, Gansevoort 1479 



Fig. 91. Out-apiary of W. D. Wright, Altamont 1481 



Fig. 92. Apiary of I. VanAuken, Altamont 1483 



Fig. 93. Wintering bees in cellar containing furnace 1485 



Fig. 94. Pickled brood 1487 



Fig. 95. European foul brood 1489 



Fig. 96. R. F. Holtermann 1505 



Fig. 97. Miss Hettie E. Hoffman 1519 



