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hives. Just before loading, these slots are 

 closed with wire cloth. The bees should not 

 be confined one minute longer than is nec- 

 essary. If possible, bees should be loaded 

 late in the afternoon, and, better still, after 

 I hey have stopped flying. The entrance- 

 screens are nailed just before the bees are 



loaded into the car. If the bees are flying 

 the closing will have to be deferred till 

 night. 



Fig. 4 sliows one of the automobile trucks 

 being loaded. The regular covers and bot- 

 toms should be placed first, then next the 

 colonies themselves. 



A ROTARY SECTION CLEANER 



RY A. E. SHORE 



A machine which will enable one to clean 

 as many cases of honey as four men can 

 clean by hand is that illustrated. 1 have 

 been using the machine in cleaning comb 

 honev for the Superior Honey Co., at 

 Idaho Falls. 



I sorted the honey, cleane<J and eased it, 

 and could get through about as many cases 

 as four others could do by hand. 



The illustration will show what a small 

 power is necessary to run the little machine. 

 Any one can soon learn to use it. 



Charles R. Dana, of Ogden, cleaned ten 

 cases an hour with this machine. 



Ogden, Utah. 



["While we were in Ogden last winter we 

 had the pleasure of meeting Mr. Shore and 

 seeing his macliine which he here describes. 

 He sent it to Medina, but we had some 

 little trouble with it on account of its break- 

 ing the sections. But Mr. F. W. Redfield 

 said he had seen the machine in use, and 

 that it had been doing very satisfactory 

 work. It has the advantage over sandpaper 

 in tliat it does not clog up; and if properly 

 used it will doubtless do good work. — Ed.j 



Not an electric fan, but a section cleaner. 



A QUEEN -REARING FAILURE WITH A BRIGHT SIDE 



BY RUTH C. GIFFORD 



My firet attempt at queen-rearing was 

 made last summer. Before starting 1 read 

 eveiything available on the subject. Most 

 of the methods were too complex. I wanted 

 some good queens and also the colonies at 

 work in supers during the clover flow. Fi- 

 nally I decided to rear the queens near the 

 end of the flow ; but even then I did not 

 want to use any more colonies than were 

 absolutely necessary. 



When the time came for starting the cells, 

 a strong colony was made broodless and 

 (|ueenless. as recommended in one method 

 given in the A B C of Bee Culture. Frames 

 containing honey Avere left in the hive, and 

 the colony was allowed to stand a couple of 



hours. Then it was given a frame contain- 

 ing eggs and young larvas from the high- 

 record colony. The comb in this frame was 

 shaved back almost to the midrib on both 

 sides. Several days later the other frames 

 were returned, together with an extra hive 

 of bees and brood. Everything seemed to 

 go nicely. They built fourteen good-looking 

 queen-cells. 



The nuclei for the cells were placed in 

 three eight-frame hives, two of which were 

 divided into three and the other into two 

 equal compartments. As wire screening had 

 been tacked on the bottoms of these hives 

 they could be placed directly over three 

 colonies whose supers had be^n removed, 



