. Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 1.—J. S. CottercHs apiary and side-hill honey-house, Auckland, X. Z. All (|iieens inij>or1ecl are changed to newcages in one of the staterooms of tlie shipthey arrive on, and the accompanying beesare killed and the cages burned. The in-sj)ector does tliis himself, and mails the(|ueens to the owners. It is only fair to ^ddowes to state that liis labors are mostlyfor I lie good of the cause, as he rccei\ cs very. Fig. 2.—J. .S, Cotterells circular-saw work shop in New Zealand little com])ensation. He is a hard-working,conscientious, and just official, and
. Gleanings in bee culture . Fig. 1.—J. S. CottercHs apiary and side-hill honey-house, Auckland, X. Z. All (|iieens inij>or1ecl are changed to newcages in one of the staterooms of tlie shipthey arrive on, and the accompanying beesare killed and the cages burned. The in-sj)ector does tliis himself, and mails the(|ueens to the owners. It is only fair to ^ddowes to state that liis labors are mostlyfor I lie good of the cause, as he rccei\ cs very. Fig. 2.—J. .S, Cotterells circular-saw work shop in New Zealand little com])ensation. He is a hard-working,conscientious, and just official, and the Agri-cultural Dejiartment of .Jamaica is to be con-gratulated on getting so able a man to lookafter the apicultural interests. Fig. ;> shows Mr. Kddowesat hishalf-way-tree apiary. Fig. 4 is a partial \iew of thesame yard. Mr. Eddowes uses the Him-mons liive; and from50 colonies in 1!)1<I hetook 4400 lbs. of ex-tracted honey, and re-/Y ? ceived net in ,I 60 cts. jier gallon afterI freight and commis-I sion were also increased thisyard from TiO to S8 col-onies. With this hivehe has no hive-bodies andsu]iers slide in oncleats, and he can re-move body or super aseasily as opening a bu-reau drawer. He usesshallow sui)ers withframes 5X16 inches,and runs this yard forextracted honey. The illustrationshoM-s one of the hivesoi)en. The bottom sec-tion is an empty su-per I [without frames, Aug. 1, 1911 467 w
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