C; T. R .\ N T N G S IN BEE C TT I. T U R E 



Aprit,, 1919 



FROM THE FIELD OF EXPERIENCE 



as shown in Fig. 3. The stick is made out 

 of a piece of hardwood about five or six 

 inches long and about three-fourths of an 

 inch in diameter and looks like tlie drawing 

 in Fig. 2. The notch in the end of the stick 

 should be about one-fourth of an inch deep 

 and as long as half the width of the top- 

 bar you are using. This notch should also 

 be polished smooth. The second operation 

 consists simply in rubbing the foundation 

 fast to the top-bar with the above-mention- 

 ed stick; and to keep the stick from stick- 

 ing to the foundation I keep it in a small 

 can of water standing near me, as shown in 

 Fig. 1. When the foundation is soft enough 

 to work well it can be rubbed on to the 

 frame in this manner so firmly that it will 

 never fall off. I have hauled several boxes 

 of foundation thus fastened 20 miles over 

 lOugh roads in a hard-riding truck with solid 

 rear tires and never had a sheet fall. 



After the foundation is fastened it is a 

 simple matter to tip the frame over on the 

 imbedding board and imbed it. Also, if 

 you use a spur-wheel imbedder, the rubbing 

 stick can be made on the handle of it, and 

 you have the whole outfit in one tool. After 

 a few trials you will find this method easily 

 twice as fast as any wedge or waxing meth- 

 od ilnd a far better job when done. Another 

 advantage is that if an occasional sheet 

 should come loose (which is very rare), it 



can be easily refastened by rubbing it with 

 your hive-tool. 



I did not originate this method, but it was 

 shown me by a beekeeper from Texas, and 

 he claimed it was used considerably there. 

 Joseph H. Peterson. 



Garland, Utah. 



THE N. Y. STATE SHORT COURSE 



The Kind of Instruction that is of Great Value to 

 Commercial Beekeepers 



I attended the commercial beekeepers ' 

 course held at Cornell University, Ithaca, 

 N. Y., the last week in February, with the 

 special object of getting, if possible, some 

 information from Dr. E. F. Phillips concern- 

 ing the ' ' disappearing disease, ' ' in his dis- 

 cussion of "Diagnosis and Treatment of Bee 

 Diseases. ' ' But I got nothing new. How- 

 ever, I stumbled — yes, stumbled — upon a 

 course of lectures which well repaid me for 

 my trip. In fact, I would not care to place 

 a monev value upon the information secur- 

 ed. 



The line of talk given is on a higher level 

 than any other bee-talks I ever heard. It 

 went down to foundation truths, giving the 

 result of carefully conducted experiments 

 after carefully thought-out plans, which left 



Some Handy 

 Devices for 

 the Amateur 

 Beekeeper's 

 Workshop. 

 (See descrip- 

 tion below.) 



In the upper left-hand corner is tlic pi nn. m ,i ilpvice for cutiinu suimi- foundation for sections of any 

 size. At the upper ria;ht-hand coincj' is a tin can with top and Lottuni removed and used as a chimney for 

 an ordinary lamp and al^o for holding' the cup in which wax is heated. The lower left-hand corner shows 

 a device for puttinsr foundation in four sections, with wax and brush. The remaining illustration is a rack 

 for holding shallow frames when putting in foundation. 



