. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 278 August, 1914. American l^e Joarnal / / j^ r\ n CT //. B. The Slats Tacked On. may be turned as shown in illustration C, thereby permitting the escape to be taken o t. The slats serve to hold the escape, tin or screen in place; they should be Js-inch thinner than the out- side rim,/. c. 3-l(i inch thick for the common bee-escape board. The bee- escape boards should, however, be fj- inch deep with ?4-inch slats across the center. Rushford, Minn. the consciousness that sooner or later this expanding bee business would call loudly for a lift from his
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 278 August, 1914. American l^e Joarnal / / j^ r\ n CT //. B. The Slats Tacked On. may be turned as shown in illustration C, thereby permitting the escape to be taken o t. The slats serve to hold the escape, tin or screen in place; they should be Js-inch thinner than the out- side rim,/. c. 3-l(i inch thick for the common bee-escape board. The bee- escape boards should, however, be fj- inch deep with ?4-inch slats across the center. Rushford, Minn. the consciousness that sooner or later this expanding bee business would call loudly for a lift from his right arm. Before extracting time father burnt up great areas of gray matter trying to figure out a way to keep his vacation from coinciding with that eventful and dreaded occasion. Finally a neighbor with strong arms and a somewhat inti- mate acquaintance with the secrets of Father Langstroth, was employed to assist mother in taking the honey. So while these two were immersed in the mysteries and pleasures of Honeyland, father was wading knee-deep in a cer- tain trout stream. But even there father's mind was notentirely at peace. The " blue jinks " kept whispering to him that sooner or later his day—his Waterloo—with the bees would come. And come it did, and that with a ven- geance. On Sept. 1, father's job ceased, pe- tered out, vamoosed. Not that he got fired, but that the statute of limitation was called upon that sort of work. This left father upon the high seas of idleness, which state was at once pounced upon by mother as affording the proper hiatus for father's initiation into bee lore. (Right here, gentle reader and frowning editor, let me Initiating Father BY W. EDGAR WOODRUFF. UP to this time mother had always been the bee-man at our house. Father's closest acquaintance with the winged tribe consisted of clutter- ing up good lumber in an effort to nail "ready made" hives together, and in sampling rather freely the liquid sweets when they were
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