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Rh We first began when we were children and two swarms were bestowed upon us by an uncle who moved away from the neighbourhood. This was long before the idea of supers and box comb-honey had been thought of. We were among the first to adopt the old glass-sided super when it was introduced. The second and third times we purchased our outfit of a dealer in apiarists' supplies, and both of these beginnings were good and successful; so perhaps the best way to tell others how to begin is to describe how we began. The following is the order which we sent to a dealer.

A BEGINNER'S ORDER

One colony of bees, in an eight-frame, dovetailed, chaff hive with a deep telescope cover, and with a tested Italian queen.


 * Two complete supers ready for use, with 4¼ x 4¼ x 1½ plain sections.
 * One super cover.
 * Three extra 1½-story chaff hives uniform with the above, and with super covers.
 * One standard Corneil smoker.
 * One bee-veil.
 * One pair bee-gloves.
 * Two hundred and fifty sections, plain, no bee-way, 4¼ X 4¼ X 1½.
 * One pound medium brood foundation.
 * Two pounds thin super foundation.
 * One Daisy foundation-fasteners