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SCHOI.I.'S HONEV-HOUSE SHUTTER. 



wall with great ease. Just a little push 

 of the hand throws the shutter forward 

 and outward, and a pull of the rope 

 raises it to the proper position. To 

 release the "arm" and close the shut- 

 ter, a slight push on the underside of 

 the folding arm suffices. It is impor- 

 tant to hold to the rope firmly so as to 

 prevent the shutter from slamming, 

 and possibly striking the person oper- 

 ating it. 

 A slight change from attaching the 



shutter support, as shown in the draw- 

 ing, is necessary to make it work more 

 perfectly. Instead of hinging the sup- 

 port to the crosspiece across the mid- 

 dle of the shutter, an independent cross- 

 piece should be placed one-fourth the 

 distance from the lower end. On an 8- 

 foot shutter this crosspiece would be 2 

 feet from the lower end. The two 

 pieces of the support are each 4 feet 

 long, the lower one hinged to the mid- 

 dle of the upper one with the rope. 



Convention <M Proceedings 



New Jersey Bee-Keepers' Meeting 



One of the best attended summer 

 meetings of the New Jersey Bee-Keep- 

 ers' Association was held at the apiary 

 of Geo. Grover, near Trenton, on June 

 25. People were in attendancefrom New 

 Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York and 

 Delaware — (14 in all being present. As 

 an evidence of the interest, one couple 

 rode their bicycles 13 miles to the rail- 

 road station, in order to catch an early 

 train. 



The improved robber cloth was the 

 subject of the first talk, by Dr. Cheney, 

 of Hoboken. He also showed an in- 

 genious stand to be used when manipu- 

 lating hives. 



The tube bee-escape and its uses 

 were ably discussed by W. W. Case, of 

 Frenchtown. While the primary ob- 

 ject in devising this was for the con- 

 trol of foul brood, it is also ideal for 

 transferring. 



After lunch, "Short cuts in finding 



queens," was discussed by I. J. String- 

 ham, of New York; Dr. Cheney, of 

 Hoboken; and C. H. Root, of Red 

 Bank. Mr. Stringham's plan is pri- 

 marily intended to be used on black or 

 hybrid stock, and at a time when rob- 

 bers are troublesome. He puts near 

 the hive to be manipulated, a spare 

 bottom-board, on that a queen-excluder, 

 and two empty hive-bodies on this. 

 The hive in which the queen is to be 

 found is gently smoked at the en- 

 trance, lifted from its bottom-board 

 and placed on top of the two empty 

 bodies. The cover is now removed, 

 the bees freely smoked, and two combs 

 removed from the sides of the hive. If 

 the queen is not on them, they are cov- 

 ered from robbers. The remainder of 

 the frames in the hive are spread, and 

 the bees drawn down by free use of 

 smoke. 



This will cause most of the bees and 

 the queen to cluster below the bottom- 

 bars. The hive is raised about an inch 

 and set down sharply, dislodging the 



cluster below the frames, then replaced 

 on its stand, and the two frames re- 

 turned. The queen will be found try- 

 ing to pass through the excluder. 



Dr. Cheney's plan is to remove the 

 hive from its stand and place an empty 

 hive in its stead. On this place a 

 queen-excluder with a 4-inch board 

 tacked on one side of the lower side, 

 so there is a space of the lower hive 

 left uncovered. The hive to be manipu- 

 lated is then placed on the queen- 

 excluder, gently smoked, and the 

 combs transferred from the upper to 

 the lower hive through the uncovered 

 part of the lower hive, search being 

 made on each comb for the queen. 



Mr. Root said all who enjoyed this 

 kind of sport were welcome to it, but 

 his way was to keep nothing but quiet 

 Italian stock, and he never had the 

 least trouble in locating the queen by 

 " just looking." 



The last discussion was by President 

 Root, on his winter-case. This is a 

 double-walled outer case, with 2 inches 

 of packing between the walls. It tele- 

 scopes over the regular hive-body, the 

 hand-hole cleats being left off to insure 

 a closer tit. The regular hive cover is 

 also left off, and Ji-inch super cover is 

 used over the body. With this there is 

 used a double packed bottom and a 

 packed telescope cover. 



Mr. Root claims this case is worth $2 

 per hive each year in the saving of 

 winter stores and extra honey gath- 

 ered early before the cases are re- 

 moved. So far as location is con- 

 cerned, Mr. Root's yards would not be 

 considered by apiarists to be in need 

 of extra winter protection, as all are in 

 fairly well sheltered locations, and not 

 very remote from Raritan Bay and the 

 Atlantic Ocean, where temperatures 

 are not, ordinarily, extreme. — E. G. 



C.\RR. 



The Massachusetts Convention 



The annual convention of bee-keep- 

 ers, held by the Extension Service of 

 the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 Tune 11 and 12, at Amherst, was char- 

 acterized by a large attendance and a 

 particularly interesting program. 



The equipment for apiculture at the 

 State College, which is as good as any 

 in the country, has been added to dur- 

 ing the past year, the manufacturers 

 sending exhibits exceeding last year's 

 display. 



Ihe morning of the first day's ses- 

 sion was given over to general displays 

 and demonstrations by inventors and 

 manufacturers, and three addresses. 

 Mr. E. C. Britton, of Canton. Mass., dis- 

 cussed "Practical Bee-Keeping," em- 

 phasizing especially the need of a large 

 number of working bees for honey 

 production; Mr. Morley Pettit, Pro- 

 vincial Apiarist for Ontario, Canada, 

 took up " Extracted Honey Produc- 

 tion;" and Prof. F. A. Waugh, a horti- 

 culturist of National reputation, spoke 

 on " Pollenation of Fruits." 



Wednesday afternoon was given over 

 to bee-diseases. Diseases in the apiary 

 and their transmission, prevention an j 



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