Show WHAT BEEKEEPING REQUIRES The essential thing In for essental ting caring bees is the right kind of a hive Not that the te bees will gather any more honey in one hive than another This is a fake of the patent hive vender but some hives are more convenient than others and enable the bee keeper to so manip ulate them that he can get his honey in marketable shape Some of the essentials sentials of a good hive are ease of a css every part movable and interchangeable interchange-able freeness from all superfluous traps draws etc and a surplus arrangement holding boxes which may be taken out one at a time There is no patent on anything of value in the construction of a bee hive and anyone can make a modern mod-ern hive if he wishes to do s Competition Compe-tition however ha s beaten down prices in these goods that in most cases they ca be bought in the fat cut ready to nail for about what the lumber would cost in small quantities After the hives come a few simple and inexpensive tools which facilitate th work of handling bees Chief among these is what is known a a smoker The fact was recognized long ago that when bees are disturbed or alarmed they at once fill themselves with honey When fle with honey they seldom sting unless un-less hurt in some way They dislike smoke of any kind very much so that when a stream of it is thrown into the hive they at once fill their honey sacs After this they may be driven from one to another slm place simply by blowing a current of smoke upon them The smoker smo-ker is an implement for generating smoke so constructed that the current may be directed to any point the operator opera-tor wishes A very fair smoker may be had for 50 cents The timid and those who have a number of xjlonies to manipulate man-ipulate and want to work rapidly will find it convenient to have a bee veil to protect the face as a sting about the head or near the eyes is apt to cause some inconvenience to say the least There are other tools such as an extractor ex-tractor a drone trap a swarming box a bee escape etc which will be found necessary by those who carry on certain phases of bee keeping or conduct it on a large scale but the farmers can manipulate man-ipulate a few colonies without any of themE T Abbott in Nebraska BeeKeeper Bee-Keeper |