October, 1916. 



American ^ae Journal 



one end of the upper trough has a 

 small outlet which lets the water drip 

 out slowly. There is an overflow from 

 the upper trough in^o the one b?low 

 and from that to the lower one so that 

 there is water in all three troughs at 

 all times. As can be plainly seen in 

 the picture, grass is growing in each 

 one of the three shallow receptacles. 

 This watering place has been in use 

 in the Davis apiaries for many years 

 and is all moss grown. Although Mr. 

 Davis has a large open well a short 

 distance away and the usual bucket 

 and troughs the bees were not noticed 

 about the well. An abundant supply 

 in the immediate vicinity of the hives 

 meets their needs and saves them the 

 necessity of longer flights in search 

 of it. With a regular supply in the 

 apiary the beekeeper will find less an- 

 noyance to himself and to his neigh- 

 bors and at the same time will save 

 countless bees from drowning as is the 

 case where no such provision is made. 

 Whenever brood rearing is in progress 

 the bees require large quantities of 

 water. 



Frame Wiring and Wire Im- 

 bedding 



The best beekeepers and probably a 

 majority of all keepers of bees 

 use full sheets of foundation in 

 new brood frames, and all such 

 frames, are wired to prevent sagging 

 in the foundation, with resultant 



Fig. I.— a Frame Wiring Device 



drone comb caused by stretched cells. 

 Probably a majority of these bee- 

 keepers still do all wiring of frames 

 by hand. For anyone having much 

 wiring to do it is well worth the ex- 

 pense to get or pattern after a form 

 for such wiring. Fig. 1 shows a 



Fig. 2.— Another Wiring Device 



wiring device. F^g. 2 is a similar 

 device arranged with rollers so as to 

 make the work of wiring a small job 

 comparatively. 



The spur imbedder for fixing the 

 wires to the foundation has for years 

 been in common use. It is however, 

 far surpassed by electrical wire im- 

 bedders which not only imbed the 

 wires but melt the wax over them. 



and in this way fix such wires per- 

 manently. This is especially im- 

 portant where it maybe desired to 

 haul frames with full sheets to out 

 apiaries or to ship them if necessary. 

 When the beekeeper is in reach of a 

 good electric current an electric im- 

 bedder as in Fig. 3 may be arranged. 



tion. 



Fig. 4, the invention of an Indiana 

 beekeeper is much more practical in 

 that it takes only two dry cells to 

 produce the current. Instead of all 

 four wires being fixed at one time, the 

 five copper prongs come in contact 

 with each wire, thus shortening the 

 circuit. It is remarkable what thor- 

 ough and effective work, this home 

 made imbedder will do, and with what 

 ease it is done. 



Fig. 4.— Two Dry Cells abe Sufficient 

 With This Wire Imbedding Device 



It consists of a rheostat for regulating 

 the current, connecting wires and a 

 form on which the foundation and 

 wired frame is held. By means of 

 small protruding tacks in the side 

 bars to which the ends of foundation 

 wires are attached the current is ap- 

 plied to the four wires at one opera- 



A New Hive Cart 



Many of our readers, especially 

 among the ladies find it difficult 

 to handle the heavy sup;rs when 

 the apiaries are run for extracted hon- 

 ey. With a power-driven extractor the 

 work of honey production is not too 

 laborious for anyone if the supers 

 could be carried in by machinery. Mr. 

 Frank C. Pellett has a hive cart in 

 use in his apiary which is higher 

 than the top of the second story of 

 the hive. The past summer most of 

 his co'onies were four and five stor- 

 ies high, all full depth Langstroth 

 supers. With the cart shown in the 

 photo it is not a heavy lift to slip the 

 supers onto the cart when ready for 

 removal or for the purpose of examin- 

 ation. If it is necessary to set to 

 the bottom of such a hive when it is 



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