FOR -THE BEGINNER. 



Inasmuch as there are many questions which beginners ask, we pro- 

 pose in this article to be more explicit for their benefit, than we would 

 be to advanced apiarists., especially in the explanation of words and 

 implements used in modern bee-keeping. 



The word bee, is of good old Anglo-Kaxon origin, and we like it. Apis 

 is the Latin word meaning a bee, from which we get the word apiary, 

 meaning a place where bees are kept; apiarian meaning one who keeps 



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VIEW OF OUR HOME APIARY, AT NEVADA, OHIO, 1869. 



bees ; and api culture, which is the same as bee-culture. We sometimes 

 see the word "mel-extractor." Mel is the Latin word for honey. Hence, 

 msl-extraator means honey-extractor; and "apis-melifica" means the 

 honey making bee. This term is applied especially to the black bee 

 in natural history, whilst others are distinguished by some local adjeo- 

 tive as apis ligustica, meaning the ligurian, or Italian bee. 

 If you watch a hive of bees in spring, you will see many coming in 



