Modern Bee-Tieeping. 
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every Bee Keeper became a subscriber to either the '•' Journal" 
or the "Record," and thus got the latest information either 
weekly or monthly, as the case might be, the work of the Asso- 
ciations naturally became less and less needful, and now only a 
Bar Frame Hive. 
Lower body, mth porch and entrances. Floor-board. 
very few of the still existing local Associations give their mem- 
bers the usual spring and autumn visits of experts. 
Bee-keeping is an industry that presents unique features. 
Its products. Honey and AVax, cost nothing, and if not collected 
are wasted. The gatherers — the Bees — do their work without 
payment. The task of looking after the Bees is very light, 
so that in this business we have labour and material free. All we 
have to pay for is the supei-vision of the gatherers, the cost of 
