. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 105 want can be purchased at most hard- ware stores uncoated. The outfit re- quired for preparing the nails is an old frying or stew pan and a little rosin. Place the pan containing the nails on the fire ; stir them to get evenly heated. Try a few at first. Have a little pow- dered rosin, say one tablespoonfull to a pound of nails. When the nails begin to turn blue remove from the fire and immediately sift the rosin over the nails, stirring till all are smeared with the molten rosin. Now turn them out on a bench or bo
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 105 want can be purchased at most hard- ware stores uncoated. The outfit re- quired for preparing the nails is an old frying or stew pan and a little rosin. Place the pan containing the nails on the fire ; stir them to get evenly heated. Try a few at first. Have a little pow- dered rosin, say one tablespoonfull to a pound of nails. When the nails begin to turn blue remove from the fire and immediately sift the rosin over the nails, stirring till all are smeared with the molten rosin. Now turn them out on a bench or board and spread out thin. You now have the genuine (so-called) cement-coated nails. One pound of rosin is sufficient to coat one hundred pounds of nails. Will some brother bee- keeper tell us how he succeeds with this method ? Corona, Cal., Apr. 9, 1900. CHIEF OF CUBAN BEE-KEEPERS. REFERENCE has been made before in these columns to Dr. G. Garcia Viete, the gentleman who is re- ported to have harvested 380 tons of honev in a single pleasure in presenting herewith a por- trait of Dr. Viete, together with one of Senor Carlos Sanz, who constitute a part of the firm operating this immense apiarian enterprise. Before the Cuban war the doctor kept between 1,500 and 2,000 colonies, 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 Falconer, N. Y. : W. T. Falconer Manfg. Co.
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