Gleanings in bee culture . time to carry them to the house. AVell, ifyou will look at the plan of our apiary, youwill see, where the paths intersect, quite alittle gravel space. On this space, we keep empty Simplicity hives for convenience. Abottom-board is nicely leveled up, and onthese we can pile hives up any height. Well,3 hives set on this bottom-board, and thena cover, will raise it just about the, height ofyour vest buttons, and you will find it a veryhandy table on which to set your smoker orany tools, and being a conspicuous spot, youcan always tell wliere to look. Now, tomake it into
Gleanings in bee culture . time to carry them to the house. AVell, ifyou will look at the plan of our apiary, youwill see, where the paths intersect, quite alittle gravel space. On this space, we keep empty Simplicity hives for convenience. Abottom-board is nicely leveled up, and onthese we can pile hives up any height. Well,3 hives set on this bottom-board, and thena cover, will raise it just about the, height ofyour vest buttons, and you will find it a veryhandy table on which to set your smoker orany tools, and being a conspicuous spot, youcan always tell wliere to look. Now, tomake it into a tool-box, you have only to setanother hive over it, and put on the coverwhen it comes night, and all your imple-ments are secure, handy, and dry in case itrains during the night, or, in fact at anyother time. This stand and tool-box costsyou nothing, for every bee-keeper wants atleast a half-dozen empty Simplicity hives onhand constantly for emergencies. Below isa picture of a couple of them as they appearin our SIMPLICITY-niVE TOOL-BOX, FOR KEEPING HANDY AND DRY, S3I0KER, BASKET OF ROTTEN WOOD, MATCH-BOX, (iUEEN-CAGES, ETC., ETC. IMPERFECT ADDRESSES. A friend sent us $ for four tested queens,which were promptly sent, but they all lay in hispostofflcc, and died, because he wrote his name sobadly we called it Borus instead of Barnes. Aswe had his first name correct, and also the initial, itdoes seem as if his postmaster might have guessedthe truth, when our friend had been calling day af-ter day for his queens. Oftentimes a little impor-tunity at express and post oflices is a good your postmaster if there are no bees there forany one, and he will often pull out some thingthat will prove to be just what you are waiting the real trouble, my friends, is with you whowill persist in hastily scrawling your names. Thisfriend wrote us three times, and we got his threesignatures together, but none of us would ever havemade Barnes of it. It takes time to
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