. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 284 THE FA EM. ter packing. Leave the bottom boards of your hives on, and put a Uttle sawdust under them. A bee-house is useful if it has a large window in the floor, for all operations that require to let the bees out in a room; then they fly to the window and get in bunches at its bottom near the floor, and when you are through with the changes to be made, they go easily into the hive. Make a tin reeling ma- chine; reel out your honey; put it in neat glass packages; make holes on the side of your old- fashioned box hives, and
. The American farm and stock manual. Agriculture; Home economics. 284 THE FA EM. ter packing. Leave the bottom boards of your hives on, and put a Uttle sawdust under them. A bee-house is useful if it has a large window in the floor, for all operations that require to let the bees out in a room; then they fly to the window and get in bunches at its bottom near the floor, and when you are through with the changes to be made, they go easily into the hive. Make a tin reeling ma- chine; reel out your honey; put it in neat glass packages; make holes on the side of your old- fashioned box hives, and get boxes everywhere—that is the se- cret of non-swarming; and make winter pacldng sl^eds as we have told you. ^ Bee Farming in Australia. f —We present herewith a very in- 3 teresting article on the subject of g bee farming, as practiced in New .J, South Wales, Australia, where, ^ as will be seen, the industry is H carried on on a very extensive i scale. The article is carefully J illustrated and the methods em- o ployed plainly described, and we » trust that all who take an interest 4- in the subject of bee keeping may 2 gain some valuable hints and ^ suggestions from a perusal of the iq same. ^ The operations in bee culture g, going on in Paramatta are well < deserving of being ranked as bee ^ farming. They are carried on u after the most approved system ^ of. the German apiarians, which differs only in the form of hive used and a few minor details from the approved system' fol- lowed in Britain and Ameiica. But to get at the history of the company whose operations we illustrate: It appears that, in December, 1881, a skilled bee master, Wilhelm Abram, arrived in Sydney from Germany, where bee culture is a recognized indus- try amd subsidized by the State, and is under the care of scientific entomolo- gists, for the purpose of teaching the art of bee culture to those desirous of making it their study, and at such an institution Mr. Abram was trained. Before leaving G
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