. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. tunnel, cabin and all. Jabe died that winter, down in the city, and I was discouraged and broke. I went back the following summer to see about the claim, but finding the whole thing covered up, abandoned it for good. San Francisco, Calif. Vouched for by Mr. E. F. Lane. Mr. Sites is evidently trying to get ahead of the stories told by our friend Mr. Baldensperger in a previ- ous issue. Let us not stop at that, since honey has been recognized as the "ambrosia" or food of the gods, and since there is also a "milky way," is it not quit
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. tunnel, cabin and all. Jabe died that winter, down in the city, and I was discouraged and broke. I went back the following summer to see about the claim, but finding the whole thing covered up, abandoned it for good. San Francisco, Calif. Vouched for by Mr. E. F. Lane. Mr. Sites is evidently trying to get ahead of the stories told by our friend Mr. Baldensperger in a previ- ous issue. Let us not stop at that, since honey has been recognized as the "ambrosia" or food of the gods, and since there is also a "milky way," is it not quite probable that some of the stars which we see in the heav- ens are entirely composed of honey? They say that there are no lawyers in heaven, but beekeepers are surely found there.—Editor. The Huish Hive and Stand The Evolution of the Beehive By the Editor. "Editor Dadant: An extract from the diary of John Evelyn, who lived, during the times of King Charles I, O. Cromwell, Charles II and James II, at Sayes Court, near London, may interest your many readers, who have read articles on 'The Evolution of the Beehive.' Evelyn wrote, Tuly 13, 1654: " 'We all dined at that most oblig- ing and universally curious Dr. Wil- kins's, at Wadham College, Oxford. He was the first who showed me the transparent apiaries, which he built like castles and palaces, and so or- dered them one upon another as to take the honey without destroying the bees. These were adorned with a variety of dials, little statues, vanes, etc., and he was so abundantly civil, finding me pleased with them, to present me with one of the hives which he had empty, and which I afterwards had in my garden at Sayes Court, where it continued many years, and which his Majesty came on purpose to see and contem- plate with much satisfaction.' "From this brief account, we are justified in assuming there were movable frames in this observation hive. Evelyn throughout his life kept bees and took more than a pass- in
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