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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



building, 12x16 feet in size, with six- 

 feet posts. The structure is built in 

 sections, and bolted together at the 

 corners. The two halves of the roof are 

 built separate, and the floor is in two 

 sections; all portable, and can be moved 

 at one load on a wagon. The material is 

 |-inch-thick planed boards for the siding. 

 The frame is of 2 x 4rs, planed down to 

 lyi inches by 3>< inches. This is heavy 

 enough for this size of building, and is 

 lighter to move. The sleepers are of 

 2x6 inch, placed 16 inches apart. 

 The floor is made bee-tight by planing 

 and matching. The inside of each house 

 is lined with tar-felt paper, fastened on 

 so nicely with lath, that not a single bee 

 can get in. Other papers will not 

 answer, as mice will gnaw them full of 

 holes, necessitating repapering. 



ADVANTAGES OF THE MCINTYRE UNCAPPING 

 TANK. 



This is a stock-watering tank, made 

 of galvanized steel. It is two feet deep, 

 twenty-two inches wide, and six feet 

 long, with a gate near the bottom at one 

 end. A slatted bottom provides for the 

 drainage of the cappings. This slatted 

 bottom of the uncapping tank is built of 

 three-fourth-inch-square pieces of white 

 pine lumber, 21>^ inches long, spaced 

 3/^-inch apart, nailed to two longitudinal 

 pieces of the same material, 2^2' inches 

 wide, and a half-inch less in length than 

 the inside length of the tank. The afore- 

 said ^jf-inch-square pieces are nailed on 

 the edges of the longitudinal strips, thus 

 forming a 2}^-inch reservoir under the 

 frame, to catch the drip from tha cappings. 



A COMB RACK AT THE TOP OF THE TANK. 



A frame of :V-inch-thick lumber, 2'i 

 inches wide, composed of two longitudinal 

 pieces one inch longer than the tank, and 

 two transverse pieces of the same 

 material, cut >4-inch less in length than 

 the inside width of the tank. To 

 assemble: Place the two short pieces 

 of material parallel with each other, the 

 distance apart of the inside length of the 

 tank, less J4.' of an inch; standing on 



edge. Transverse of these, and parallel 

 with each other, 18 '4 inches apart at 

 their inside edges, nail the two longitudinal 

 pieces. 



Built this way, the two cross-pieces 

 of the frame are on the under side, and 

 drop down into the tank, and hold the 

 frame in place. Some of our later tanks 

 have corner braces at the top; this 

 necessitates placing the cross-pieces in 

 from the end of the tank— the illustration 

 will show this style of tank. 



The longitudinal pieces of the frame 

 being placed 18, '4 inches apart, are the 

 same width as the inside length of the 

 Langstroth hive, and are built this width 

 to accomodate the frame after being 

 uncapped. Although this width will 

 allow of the frame of honey being placed 

 down, in the same position as if in the 

 hive, it is rarely ever used this way, for 

 it is much more handy to allow but one 

 end of the frame to go down into place, 

 the other end resting on the bottom bar. 



A rest for the frame of honey while 

 uncapping is made of two pieces of this 

 same ^4-inch material, and a 20d spike 

 cutoff 1>^ inches long and sharpened. 

 The main cross-piece for the rest is cut 

 22 inches long. This cross-piece is 

 tacked on with only a small nail at each 

 end, as, when in use, it is placed at differ- 

 ent positions over the tank, at the option 

 of the operator. The other piece is cut 

 three inches long, and is to hold the 

 sharpened spike, that the frame rests 

 upon while uncapping. This pivot that 

 the frame turns on when uncapping, is 

 driven through from the under side, near 

 one edge. The pivot block is nailed on 

 permanently, at the proper place, then, 

 when the uncapping is to be done from 

 the opposite side of the tank, the whole 

 cross piece is tacked on the other end too. 



Some of the advantages this uncapping 

 tank has over the cracker barrel tank, 

 placed over a wash tub, as we have 

 been using in years back, are, first, the 

 greater capacity; second, larger drainage 

 surface, thus leaving a less per cent, of 

 honey in the cappings; third, sanitary, as 



