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(tLeanings tx bee culture. 



May 



ANOTHER WAY OF EMPTYING THE 

 T SUPEK, 



WITH THD T TINS STATIONAKY. 



fKIEND HOOT:— T supi><>,se, from what you 

 have repeatedly stated, that you are often 

 burdened with more correspondence than 

 yon desire or can malie use of, and for that 

 reason I have kept silent many times when I 

 fairly ached to put in a word upon some current 

 topic under discussion; and when I saw in Glean- 

 ings for April Ist the description of C. C. Miller's 

 method of removing sections from surplus cases, I 

 thought I would venture to give a brief account of 

 my way of doing the same work; for you know 

 that, when we have what we believe to be an extra 

 good thing, it affords us pleasure to compare notes 

 with our friends. 



r use some surplus eases similar to those of friend 

 Miller's, e.\cept thai T fasten the tin T's permanent- 

 ly in their places. To get the sections out of the 

 cases, as thus made, T have u bearing-board, with 

 upright blocks 4'^ inches high fastened upon it, 

 corresponding to each row of sections in the cases, 

 and with spaces between the upriglit blocks to al- 

 low a passageway for the tin T's when the case is 

 pressed downward. This bearing-board is placed 

 in a machine made for this purpose; a case of sec- 

 tions is set upon it. there being stays on three sides 

 of it to hold it squarely in its proper place; then by 

 means of a treadle a follower is brought to bear 

 upon the entiie length of the opposite sides of the 

 case, in such a manner as to force it downward 

 evenlj' all around at the same time, the follower 

 having guides which hold it firmly so that one side 

 or corner can not get in advance of the other parts 

 and twist the case out of shape, and thereby cramp 

 and break the sections. If a steady gentle pressure 

 does not separate the case from the sections, let 

 up a little on the treadle. A spring lifts the follow- 

 er upward, then a (juick downward motion will give 

 the necessary force to break any wax or propolis 

 which may be holding them together, and the case 

 will slip down out of the way. The sections will be 

 left standing on the top of those upright pieces 

 upon the bearing-board, ready to be removed. I 

 also remove sections from the wide frames with 

 this same machine, but have a different bearing- 

 board. 



Now, friend Root, for the sake of brevity 1 have 

 not entered much into detail in the above, but have 

 simply given an outline of my way of getting sec- 

 tions out of supers. Jo.shu.a. Bull. 

 Seymour, Wis., AprO 16, 1887. 



Many thanks, friend B., for your sugges- 

 tions. I have no doubt that the plan for 

 emptying the T super witli the T tin sta- 

 tionary will answer excellently. If I am 

 correct, Mr. Heddon has a follower some- 

 thing similar to yours; but I believe you 

 have improved it a little by means of the 

 foot-power attachment. If with your at- 

 tachment the super can be emptied of its 

 contents as quickly and easily as friend 

 Miller does it, I don't see but there would 

 be considerable advantage in having the T 

 tins stationary. I believe, however, there is 

 another advaJitage, with the loose tins, the 

 super can be Idled easier. When you have a 

 good thing, friend B., and fairly"ache to let 

 it nut don't brs afraid of the everlasting 

 ^* waste-basket." We always try to arrange 



it so that communications of general inter- 

 est shall appear ; but sometimes we are so 

 flooded that even good articles have to be 

 held over for some time. 



OUR P. BENSON LETTER. 



THE WINTER APKKKV. 



PROPOZE to organnize a winter aperry. It is 



C well ncan that the most prophetable way to 

 "Vl maik butter is the winter dary. Simmilerly 

 likewise it's the same with bees. Summer 

 aperrys is going out of stile, and winter- aper- 

 rys will be all the go. The man which wants to 

 maik munny at the bee bi/.ness nuist git a winter 

 aperry. 



The advantiges of a winter aperry is too te.ius 

 to remunei-ate. But 1 will sho a phue points in 

 which it is souppeeryer to summer, .lennerly win- 

 ter izzent so hot as sunuuer and yiire apt to swet 

 moar in summer and it makes the bees mad to see 

 you swet. 



Next, the winter aperry is not out door but in un- 

 der shelter. This makes it suitful for dellykit la- 

 dies, which they doaiit like to spoil thair completik- 

 shens in the hot sun in summei-. 



Agane, evry buddy hed ot to keep a winter aper- 

 ry on ackount of bekoz all others keeps them in 

 summer, tharefore the competishen will be less. 



MY WINTER .M'KKKY. 



The winter aperry is construckted with (4) four 

 walls and a dore and a glass roof. The roof is the 

 grate feetyour of my winter apperry. It is egg- 

 zackly upposit a house roof. Whair a house or a 

 barn roof goes up the winter aperry goes down and 

 visy-versy contrarywise, the hiest place in the roof 

 of the winter aperry is jist whair the house roof is 

 lo. The ob.ieck of this will be quite a parent on a 

 little refleckshiin. It is to colleck the rays of the 

 sun. fo)' thL- common roof maiks the rays of the sun 

 slide ofl' and the roof of the winter aperry ketches 

 them. A siib-ventillater shaft starts (8) three feet 

 above the ground and cums out at the roof to let 

 out the rays of the sun when thay git too noomer- 

 ous. 



Sitch is the the prinsypull points of the winter 

 aperry. The rest is eezy. Git my winter strane of 

 bees, and feed them out of my youreeky feeder and 

 thay will maik moar hunny than in summer, for 

 you see the bees kant git out of the winter aperry 

 and git lost like thay do when thay fly off in sum- 

 mer. Bees doant dy in summer; you ken see that 

 by looking at a hive; thay jist fly off' and git so far 

 thay never git back. 



1 grate advantige of the winter aperry is that 

 bees doant sting in winter. Hwo ever herd of bees 

 attactin enny buddy in winter'^ So you see if evry 

 1 kep a winter aperrj-, it wood avoid the necessity 

 of a law soot. P. Benson, A. B. S. 



.\. B. S. is fijr Apioulmrigtjca,! Bee Keepin Sigh- 

 ORtist, 



