ILLUSTRATIONS.

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Fig. 1. The Bingham bee smoker 14

2. Bee veil 15

3. The Porter spring bee escape 16

4. Langstroth hive with two half-depth supers for surplus

honey 19

5. The Langstroth hive--Dadant-Quinby form--cross section

showing construction 20

6. Quinby closed-end frames 20

7. The Simmins nonswarming system--single-story hive with

supers 24

8. The Simmins nonswarming system--double-story hive with

supers 25

9. Quinby uncapping knife 30

10. The automatic reversible honey extractor 31

11. Langstroth hive--super above, holding 28 sections for

comb honey 32

12. Comb honey stored in pound section 32

13. Perforated zinc queen excluder 33

14. Shipping cases for comb honey 34

15. Solar wax-extractor 35

16. Steam wax-extractor 35

17. Double-walled hive adapted to outdoor wintering, as

well as summer use 39

18. The American straw hive (Langstroth principle) of

Hayek Brothers 40

19. Colony of bees with newspapers packed between inner and

outer cases and brood frames on end for the winter 41

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