ILLUSTRATIONS. Page. 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 BEE KEEPING. LOCATIONS SUITED TO THE KEEPING OF BEES. It may be safely said that any place where farming, gardening, or fruit raising can be successfully followed is adapted to the profitable keeping of bees--in a limited way at least, if not extensively. Many of these localities will support extensive apiaries. In addition to this there are, within the borders of the United States, thousands of good locations for the apiarist--forest, prairie, swamp, and mountain regions--where agriculture has as yet not gained a foothold, either because of remoteness from markets or the uninviting character of soil or climate. This pursuit may also be followed in or near towns and, to a limited extent, in large cities. It even happens in some instances that bees in cities or towns find more abundant pasturage than in country locations which are considered fair.