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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



May 1 



necessary if sufficient 

 super room is given 

 the old brood - nest. 

 By either plan there is 

 absolutely no hand- 

 linfj of frames, and the 

 ai)iarist is independ- 

 ent of any whim of 

 the bees as to their 

 swarming. In a large 

 apiary no professional 

 honey-producer would 

 at the present day 

 think of allowing nat- 

 ural swarming, un- 

 controlled; and the 

 above methods will es- 

 pecially meet the re- 

 quirements of all those 

 who wish to avoid the 

 discomfort of watching 

 for even first swarms. 

 Ft. Smith, Ark. 



THE TWO-POUND SEC- 

 TION OF FORTY 

 YEARS AGO. 



.4««ftiV#flU I .f-;?»%-- 



BY H. R. BOAKDMAN. 



Years ago, although 

 I had been using mov- 

 able - frame hives, I 

 had as yet nothing 

 better than mere emp- 

 ty boxes for my sur- 

 l)lus comb honey. I 

 began trying to find 

 something more con- 

 venient and more ele- 

 gant, and the sectional 

 honey-frame was the 

 outcome of my 

 thought. I used these 

 for all of my comb 

 honey for several 

 years. They were plain 

 nailed frames of such 

 a size that four of 

 them would fit in one 

 of my large deep brood- 

 frames. They were 

 prepared with plain 

 wax starters, and were 

 tiered up in a regular 



hive - body over a brood - chamber. These 

 were quite an imjirovement, and the best 

 in this line that I had then found. A box 

 to hold the set of sections soon followed, 

 which also proved to be very practical. I 

 made a few of these at first, and soon af- 

 terward ordered material for a large num- 

 ber. The interchangeable feature proved 

 valuable in many ways. Four of these 

 boxes covered a hive, and the sections held 

 from lyi to 2 lbs. of honey each. 



I do not think that I ever produced finer 

 honey or secured better crops than I did in 

 these original sections; nor have I been able 

 to make my business pay any better than it 



TWO-POUND SECTIONS AS USED BY MR. BOARDMAN FORTY 

 YEARS AGO. 

 The small boxes are nucleus hives for queen-rearing, in which these 

 large sections were used as frames. 



did then. My first shipment of comb hon- 

 ey was in these sections, for, of course, I had 

 then never heard of a section that would 

 fold, of comb foundation, nor of separators. 

 Well, I shij^ped r>00 lbs. to W. P. South- 

 worth, in Cleveland, at 25 cts. a pound. 

 This looked like quite a deal to me then. 

 But the honey was rejiorted in bad shape, 

 as it was broken in transit, so that I had to 

 take 20 cts. I have often thought since that 

 I would not consider it a great misfortune 

 now that would comi)el me to accept 20 cts. 

 a i)ound for my honey. 



When the queen got up into the upper 

 part and used these sections for brood-rear- 



