. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. WAX EXTRACTORS SET UP FOR COMPARISON AT MASSACHUSETTS. JOHN L. BYARD IN THE COLLEGE APIARY ious kinds of hives and implements that have been used during the past half century. Straw skeps, box hives, cupboard hives and almost all the other kinds in use before the standard hanging frame hive came Into use, are displayed. It is worth a long journey just to visit this museum and see this wonderful collection. The writer had never seen Allen Latham's let-alone hive until he visited the museum, nor had he seen a number of other articles of equipment often


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. WAX EXTRACTORS SET UP FOR COMPARISON AT MASSACHUSETTS. JOHN L. BYARD IN THE COLLEGE APIARY ious kinds of hives and implements that have been used during the past half century. Straw skeps, box hives, cupboard hives and almost all the other kinds in use before the standard hanging frame hive came Into use, are displayed. It is worth a long journey just to visit this museum and see this wonderful collection. The writer had never seen Allen Latham's let-alone hive until he visited the museum, nor had he seen a number of other articles of equipment often mentioned in the beekeeping literature. The student who has this wealth of material at hand when he is studying the books and papers relating to his specialty will have a splendid opportunity to be- come familiar with everything in the way of equipment that has been used in recent years, as well as many things long obsolete. There are some things of historical interest, such as. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]


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