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honey. The cost would be $3.00; and 

 with proper care such supers and 

 combs would last a life time, as they 

 are exposed to the weather only a short 

 time each year. I think it would be 

 fair to estimate the interest at six per 

 cent. Twenty cents a year is certainly 

 a fair estimate for the cost of these 

 supers. No one car produce extracted 

 honej' with less tlic^n two supers for 

 each hive; why not have two more when 

 the cost each year will not exceed ten 

 cents, and thus be able to have some 

 elasticity about the nianag-ement — be 

 able to simpl}^ put on more supers in- 

 stead of being compelled to extract in 

 order to give room ? Do you begin to 

 grasp the centi^al idea of my system ? 

 One man coujd go on a wheel to an 

 out-apiary apd put on 100 supers in 

 half a day, giving surplus room for 

 5,000 pounds of honey, while, to extract 

 that amount would require the services 

 of a gang of five or six men, working 

 hard in the heat of a whole day. 



A "stump puller" for lifting 



HIVES. 



The mention of one rhan putting on 

 100 supers in half a day brings me to 

 the subject matter of my paper — "Con- 

 veniences in the Production of Ex- 

 tracted Honey." I should not place 

 the super of empty comb on top of two 

 or three nearly completed supers, but 

 underneath them. I should practice 

 tiering up the same as I do in comb 

 honey production. This, of course, 

 would necessitate the raising up of the 

 already filled supers. I expect that 

 the time was when some of my readers 

 would have smiled at what I am about 

 to say I would use to lift those supers 

 of honei', in order to put an empty 

 super beneath them, but Gleanings has 

 been publishing some articles from 

 Mr. F^erris of Wisconsin, and in those 

 articles he has described a derrick 

 that he uses to lift heavy supers of 

 honey, so I suppose I can now say that 



I have long had in mind something of 

 this sort for raising supers of honey in 

 order thatemptj' supers might be put 

 beneath them. My idea was to make 

 a sort of tripod, like a camera tripod 

 on a larger scale, or like a stump ma- 

 chine on a smaller scale, using ropes 

 and pulleys to do the lifting, and hitch- 

 ing to the hive by means of four hooks, 

 a hook going into each handle-hole on 

 the four sides of the hive. This may 

 seem like a laughing matter, but, to 

 the man who lifts ten-frame supers all 

 day, well, he will langh for joy. I 

 have not yet made such an arr.mge- 

 ment, but I exnect that I shall, and 

 then I'll tell you exactly how it works 

 and what I think of it. 



LEVERS FOR LIFTING HIVES WHEN PUT- 

 TING ON BEE-ESCAPES. 



Although I have not yet rigged up 

 the stump puller for lifting hives, I 

 have made an arrangement for raising 

 up hives when putting bee-escapes in 

 place. The frontispiece makes this so 

 plain as to nearly do away with the 

 need of any explanation. It is simply 

 an iron lever with the short end 

 widened out, or split into two sharp 

 prongs that can be thrust into the hand- 

 hole in the upper hive, while the lower 

 end of the support of this lever is 

 treated in a similar manner, and can 

 be placed in the hand-hole of the lower 

 hive. When the end of the lever is de- 

 pressed, the upper hive is raised. The 

 depression is continued until the two 

 levers are parallel, when a wooden pin 

 is thrust through two holes that come 

 opposite each other, thus the levers are 

 held in position, the upper hive being 

 elevated about an inch and a half above 

 the lower hive. That is, the hive is rais- 

 ed that much upon t)//^ side, when I go 

 around to the other side and use another 

 set (if lifters on that side, when the uppfr 

 hive is held an inch and a half from the 

 lower one, and it is an easy matter to 

 slip in the escape-board, and then to low- 



