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Show CONVENIENT IN THE APIARY Brush Made of Manila Rope Is Handy for Cleaning Combs of Bees Tool Box Is Useful. I have several little conveniences that I use in my apiary, one of which is a brush for clearing the combs of bees, writes B. A. Manly of Mllo, Iowa, in Bee Gleanings and Culture. Take a round stick, 16 inches long, and with a rip-saw divide it for about nine inches, leaving the other end for a handle. Take a piece of one-inch manila rope six inches long, and with the strands fill the opening in the stick, allowing them to project on both sides of the stick. At the end secure it with bee wire and securely nail the stick with one-inch brads. This makes the best brush I have seen, and is almost indestructible. Another convenience is my covered hive seat and tool box. My hive seat is 14 by 16, with a pocket on each end C by 14. These pockets come within an inch of the top, and a cover is made to telescope over the seat and rest on the top of the pockets. Under Un-der the seat I have my smoker fuel; in one of the pockets my smoker, and Bee Brush Made of Rope. in the other my tools. The framework of the cover is made of V& by l'-inch white pine. The roof is rubberoid. Everything under it keeps dry, though I leave it standing in the apiary all summer, and at the same time 1 take no chance of setting anything on fire in the honey house. |