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Show Bee Keeping in Book Form The. Miller library of the University of Wisconsin has one of the most com plete collections in the world relating to bee keeping both in the shape -oi books and historic material. This in stitution has been recently made the recipient of a straw "skep," a type ol beehive which is now only occasionally occasional-ly seen in old pictures. Tin's particular skep or beehive was made on May 29 1S4S, the day Wisconsin was declared a slate, by D. D. Danniher, a Madison beekeeper, who spent that day in mak ing a straw sleep in which to quarter a colony o! r.r-, bees, and he kept the bees in it for many years. |