Gleanings in bee culture . tly about the two first. Rememberthat it devolves on yourself more largelythan on any of the rest, even though I haveplaced the bee-keeper as third in the threegreat essentials. It is for you to understandthat the greatest point in bee-keeping is tohave the bees at the right time for the is no sense at all in working for beesor stimulating breeding when the harvest isover and gone. Yes; but that is next summers work, isit not? It should be. But unless you have everything made and prepared this winter, andyour mind filled with useful knowledge, youmay be
Gleanings in bee culture . tly about the two first. Rememberthat it devolves on yourself more largelythan on any of the rest, even though I haveplaced the bee-keeper as third in the threegreat essentials. It is for you to understandthat the greatest point in bee-keeping is tohave the bees at the right time for the is no sense at all in working for beesor stimulating breeding when the harvest isover and gone. Yes; but that is next summers work, isit not? It should be. But unless you have everything made and prepared this winter, andyour mind filled with useful knowledge, youmay be making bee-fixtures, and ignorant,next spring, at just the time when you shouldbe pushing the bees for all they are worthtoward securing the maximum number intime for the harvest. The winter is the timeto prepare for next summer, and no success-ful bee-keeper will slacken his pace till hehas his hives, sections, etc , and mind, all inthorough readiness to use at a moments no-when the season with the bees opens up THE SCHULTZ METHOD OF SHEETING WAX;MK. SCHULTZ AS AN INVENTOR; TREE-PLANTING IN GERMANY. In the early spring, while 1 was yet in Ber-lin, I spent one day with one of the ablestbee-keepers of Germany. Mr. Schultz. Heis not only a man of rare intelligence, but hepossesses at the same time exceptional in-ventive genius. Among the many things 166 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Feb. 1 that I saw there was his method of produc-ing wax sheets for the ordinary are made on a huge revolving hollowcylinder. This cylinder, I should say, wasas much as six feet in diameter, and fully aslong. In revolving, the lower portion of thecylinder dips in the hot wax, and the numberof revolutions required to fashion sheets ofthe required depth is easily determined bytaking off a shaving of these wax sheets. Itis easy to remove these great wax sheetsfrom the cylinder, after which they are cutto any desired form and size. Then, by pass-ing between rollers something like t
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