. Bees and honey : our 40th edition illustrated catalogue & price list, of implements for bee culture with directions for their use. A. I. Root Company; Bee culture. YUCCA BEUSH for brushing bees off the combs AND tunnel. COOS'S BEUSH,for above purpose; for engraving see May Gleanings, 1883. Each, 13c; 10, f ; 100,$ By mail, 3c each extra. IX TUB , PER I[U^^) Si .iO I Sections, printed as per cut S "•'i .50 i Wire-cloth caps for ends .. 2 00 1 00 1 AVi re-cloth to match them 3 Oft 20 I Strips to hold candy, per 100 10 I Handles of fancy - col
. Bees and honey : our 40th edition illustrated catalogue & price list, of implements for bee culture with directions for their use. A. I. Root Company; Bee culture. YUCCA BEUSH for brushing bees off the combs AND tunnel. COOS'S BEUSH,for above purpose; for engraving see May Gleanings, 1883. Each, 13c; 10, f ; 100,$ By mail, 3c each extra. IX TUB , PER I[U^^) Si .iO I Sections, printed as per cut S "•'i .50 i Wire-cloth caps for ends .. 2 00 1 00 1 AVi re-cloth to match them 3 Oft 20 I Strips to hold candy, per 100 10 I Handles of fancy - colored hook - liinder'.s cloth for .3-lb. 2 00 I Water-bottles 2 oo io I Tin tunnel, for shaking the bees into t!-e above cages SO " I Vuc^a brushes os With this tunnel an expert will put up a p'und of bees ready for shipment, in five minutes, after lindliig the queen. After using the luniicl a dozen times or so, the hnney that shakes against i TIN- rou the inside should be washed off, iN-G THR DKEs INTO and :il<n the vucca bru^^h that is TiiF. ABovi; ^. „p robber bee* frMui siickiiisr up the new honey. T le c;iges may hold motp bees than the weight n:imed, I specially in cool weath-r; in fact, we often put I'/zlbs. ina Mb. cage; but if the weath- er is hot, it is not safe to put in more than 1 lb., and for wnjlong voyages, we would put V2 lb. in a Mb. cage. ONE-HALF POUITD OF BEES. The Vi lb. of bees, we endeavor to have made up of young Italians: but it is not alwavs possible to do this, at all seasons of the year. Vonng- bees can be used in so many ways, and it is such a verv safe way of sendinsr and introducing queens, that a large trade has now come out of it. If you pur- chase only a half pound of bees with your queen, and turn them loose on one or two of y<mr own brood combs, when recr ived, you have a fair, work- ing, little colony at once, and the queen will go right to laying: for we put them up so that she sometimes ke
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