Feb. 25, 1904. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



157 



wintered in a darkened chamber. Tliis seemed 

 to be a good place uulil about Marcli 1, when 

 the bees became restless and began to crawl 

 out of the hives, many never returniDg to 

 them again. 



We lost only 3 colonies last winter, while 

 several neighboring bee-owners lost their 

 whole stock. Of our remaining S, G were 

 fairly strong, increased to 12, and gave about 

 100 pounds of comb honey. Eight weeks of 

 drouth (April to June), then !! weeks of rain, 

 followed by cold and damp weather, seemed to 

 stop the main white clover llow just as the 

 sections were nicely started. 



We had ■-' prime swarms to unite, and they 

 produced more than half of our crop; which 

 proves to me that the number of colonies is 

 not so important as strength of numbers per 

 colony. Howard H. House. 



OneiUa Co., N. Y., Oct. 31. 



Wiring Frames. 



In wiring frames, many of the plans I have 

 tried, but none of them work as well in my 

 hands as the following: 



1 first prepare a gauge, by using an end-bar 

 with a cleat, or stop-block nailed across one 

 end. On a line through the middle I drive a 

 tack or sharp nail, far enough to make a little 

 prick-mark, one for every wire I want, and 

 where I want the wires. Then on top of this 

 I nail another end-bar to keep the tacks from 

 being pushed back. Then with the stop-block 

 end of the gauge in my right hand, my thumb 

 and finger as guide, the thumb and linger of 

 my left hand as guide on the other end, the 

 frame hung on any convenient corner or pro- 

 jection, the top-bar to the left, I press the 

 guage on the end of the frame, with the stop- 

 block against the lower corner, hard enough 

 to leave little prick-marks on the other end of 

 the same. At each of these marks I drive 

 through from the outside of the frame a No. 

 IS flat-head wire-nail, long enough to project 

 inside "._, or \ inch. With a small pair of 

 pliers I turn a hook on the nail enough to 

 keep the wire in while stringing it in the 

 frames (a little experience soon teaches which 

 way to turn each hook so the wire will not 

 slip out before you get it properly fastened.) '| 

 My wire (I use No. ',iO) is on a spool or reel, 

 fastened so it will unwind, the wire passing 

 under double-pointed tacks, driven out of 

 line enough to give the proper tension ; I 

 twist a little loop on the end of the wire and 

 draw out about what I will want for the frame 

 and hook the loop on the first hook, then 

 across the frame horizontally to the corres- 

 ponding hook on the opposite side and down 

 that side to the next hook, then back to the 

 side I started from, and so continue to the 

 last hook. With the thumb and finger of my 

 left hand I hold the wire in the last hook 

 while with a rather dull jack-knife I cut the 



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wire, leaving an end long enough to twist 

 around the wire outside the hook to fasten it. 

 In using a dull jack-knife to cut the wire I 

 draw on it hard enough to take up the slack 

 which I hold with my left hand until it is fas- 

 tened. Then turn the frame upright on any 

 smooth surface convenient, and hard enough 

 so the head of the nail will not drive into it, 

 and with a chisel. Hat file, or any similar 

 square-edged instrument, I strike down along 

 the wire and drive the hook into a staple, or 

 far enough that the wire cannot get out. In 

 this way I draw the wire to any degree of ten- 

 sion I want (and I like mine pretty tight), the 

 sing of the wire indicating when it is tight 

 enough. Sometimes the wire will kink, and 

 get drawn tight before noticed, when it is sure 

 to break in drawing up, in which case I loosen 

 up the staples, twist a loop in each end of the 

 broken wire, slip one end of a short wire 

 through one loop and the other end through 

 the other loop, and twist them fast, and draw 

 them up close as I can easily with my hands, 

 then draw up the staples again. In this way 

 I can put in 4 wires quicker and easier, and 

 draw them tighter, than by any other method. 



If the foundation is fastened securely to the 

 top-bar and the wire pretty taut, I never have 

 any trouble with combs melting down, al- 

 though I use a ventilated gable made of 

 shakes, that is about as near proof of over- 

 heating as anything I have seen, and has the 

 merit of being very cheap, the cost of material 

 being a fraction under 10 cents even at the 

 present high price of lumber. The making 

 does not count, as I make them myself when 

 I am not otherwise busy. 



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