March, 1918 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



167 



HEADS OF GRAIN I CpOg m DIFFERENT FIELDSl ip 



Effective rorm For a form I make an 



for absolutely square su- 



Nailing Supers. per and nail the cor- 



ners solidly. On the 

 sides of the super I nail eight common shin- 

 gles, (or other thin material) as shown in the 

 illustration. The curve in the shingles (such 

 as we have) makes the insertion of the sides 

 of supers, to be nailed, much easier. If thin, 

 straight material is used it would be better 

 to chamfer the ends for an inch or two so as 

 to answer the same purpose as the curve in 

 the shingles. In case a good many supers are 

 nailed each season a permanent form should 

 be made. For this, four pieces of 1x2 in. 

 material about 16 ins. long and four 1/1x4 

 carriage bolts are needed. The strips are 

 bolted, one on each inside and one on each 

 outside of the form-super, over the shingles, 

 as shown in the illustration. The continued 

 shoving of the sides, to be nailed, between 

 the shingles will loosen them in time if only 

 nails are used, but when held by the strips 

 and boItSj the shingles will stay rigid until 

 worn too thin to hold the sides snugly. When 

 using the form, I nail or bolt it to the table 

 about a foot from the edge where I stand, 

 place a pile of sides on one side of the form- 

 super, a pile of ends on the other and a shal- 

 low box of nails on the top. Then I am 

 ready for business. I take two sides, one in 

 each hand, shove them in place between the 

 shingles and tight up against the form. Then 

 I put on an end, nail it from the top, grasp 

 the sides again, pull them out, reverse them 



by letting the nailed end drop over toward 

 me, shove back into place again and nail the 

 other end. When I pull it out, it is ready 

 to lay on its side and nail, and I am sure of 

 a perfectly square super without troubling 



Simple, Inexpensive and Time-Saving Form for 

 Nailing Supers. 



to put the square on it. Moreover, the form 

 only takes five minutes to make and yet it 

 enables one to work twice or three times as 

 rapidly as without it. E. C. Hardie. 



Burford, Ont. 



That Hot-Wax On page 12, January 



Method of Gleanings, is described 



Stiffening a method of stiffening 



Foundation. foundation by painting 



it with hot wax, as re- 

 ported by J. W. Tinsley, of Ames, la. While 

 I do not know how Mr. Tinsley applied the 

 wax, I can say that in my "experience, 

 strengthening foundation with melted wax 

 is anything but satisfactory, in general. 

 Last spring I had 750 frames filled with 

 foundation , and tried running beads of wax 

 from top to bottom of a few sheets with a 

 wax tube. The result being satisfactory, I 

 treated the whole lot in the same manner, 

 putting on from three to five beads to each 

 sheet, but had cause to regret it soon. While 

 it was a success with a few colonies, many of 

 them built burr combs out from the beads, 

 and most of them built a large number of 

 drone cells along the re-enforced places, ten 

 it may be best for any one trying the method 

 to be conservative. 



Lebanon, Ore. H. E. Weisner. 



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A Beehive at York, Pa., That Might as Well be an 

 Ice House. 



Comes to the After reading J. L. By- 



Defense of the er 's opinion of the cap- 



Peterson Melter. ping-melter on page 



935, December Glean- 

 ings, I would like to say I have been using 

 the Peterson melter for four seasons and 

 think it a great success. In fact, it docsn 't 



