Or how to Realize the Most Money with the Smallest Expenditure of Capital 
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PUBLISHED 
MONTHLY. 
VOL. 1. 
MEDINA, 0., 
FEB. 1, 1873. 
No. 2. 
STARTING AN APIARY. 
No. 2. 
'TOE hone our readers will recognize the 
T fact that wo can here only give general 
directions for the mass of those who wish to 
commence bee-keeping 
From a host of letters on the subject we 
pic up the following: — 
“What must a poor fellow do who has not 
the land lying to the east or south conveni- 
ent, neither the means to improve it in the 
way that you recommend, but would still 
like to keep a few stands of bees. 
“One of my neighbors on reading your 
description of your grounds, exclaimed, ‘Ob 1 
yes, Novice has plenty of money and 1 have 
none, and my wife in the doctor’s hands.’ ” 
Bless your hearts, fellow novices, we have 
not advised anything expensive. 
Take such land as you have got, or if 
none, we must advise every bee-keeper to 
get a few rods of land some way, “all his 
own.” 
Commence small and don't run in debt. 
Those who commence with nothing but their 
“bare bands” are oftenest the most useful 
and most successful people we have in the 
world. 
With an axe and spade and round poles 
from the woods even, you can do all that we 
have advised Start on the plan we gave if 
it.be only for a half dozen hives, and they 
will increase as you gain practice and expe- 
rience. 
Twelve years ago Novice had not the j 
value of $10 in all his “earthly possessions,” ' 
and had not money been absolutely neces- 
sary for the working out of some of his ex- 
periments be might not now have been able 
to publish even a 25c. paper. Mrs. “Novice” 
and the children will tell you that “plenty 
of money” was never yet known in thei’r 
household, but that twelve or fourteen hours 
of work daily, always has been and we 
trust always will be;’ and most of it is a 
pleasure too, especially that part pertaining 
to the grape vines, and they can be raised in 
any quantity from cuttings pruned from old 
vines at no expense but a very little labor. 
Tell your neighbor to take his wife out 
doors with him, to help plan and arrange 
his apiary, keep her on fresh beef steak 
“roasted on the coals,” and perhaps no doc- 
tor will be needed. 
If more of our American women ir ere bee- 
keepers they would know better what health 
and happiness is possible for them in this 
world of ours. 
Now then, fellow bee-keepers all over this 
broad land, whether you have one hive or 
hundreds, get your grape vines growing and 
then see about hives' for the bees that are 
coming bye and bye, and please do have 
those hives all alike, so that any frame will 
go nicely into any one of them, "or “any part 
any where.” 
This is easy to say but so bard to accom- 
plish that we fear you will many of you 
never do it unless you commence work very 
carefully. 
Some kind of a buzz saw seems a positive 
necessity, and here again we say, do not get 
in debt for something you cannot afford. 
If you wish to make but few hives a circu- 
lar saw, costing not much over a dollar, made 
to “rip” and “cutoff” both, will do very 
well. The teeth should be fine and size not 
over seven or eight inches: smoother work 
can be secured by having two such saws, one 
to “cut off'” and one to “rip.” 
A home-made arbor to run them on can 
be made without much oxpense, but a self- 
centering and self-oiling arbor can be pur- 
chased for $12 or $14, and are much more 
convenient Ours came from Wilkinson & 
Co., No. 2 Washington street, ISoston, but 
we think they might be purchased of any 
saw-maker near you. 
Our table is home-made ; top hinged at one. 
end and the other is raised and lowered by a 
sett screw, so that any kind of rabbeting is 
quickly and accurately done. Top of table 
is 3x41 feet, of ash, screwed together very 
firmly. 
As we use the same table for “cutting off',” 
the bar of wood that lies parallel to the saw, 
to gauge the width, was in the way and was 
troublesome to remove. This we now have 
attached to a strip hinged to the back edge 
of the table so that the whole turns over 
back and below the surface of the table en- 
tirely out of the way when we desire to “cut 
off” boards. 
If you will all now “listen hard” we will 
try and describe a little arrangement that 
