NOVKMBER, 1919 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



703 



Winter Problem Solved by the 

 Hive with an Inner Overcoat .... 



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The above illustration shows the substantial, compact, neat, and efficient 

 equipment that winters normal colonies of bees perfectly. 

 It consists of a frame of honey laid over the top of the others. If you have 

 no extras, one can be removed from the brood-nest for the purpose. A 100- 

 pound flour sack is spread over the top and a piece of burlap 34 by 36 inches 

 is laid over this. The First Inner Overcoat is telescoped down over the brood- 

 nest in between the inner and outer hive walls, the flour sack and burlap 

 being carried down with it. This has the effect of wrapping the brood-nest in 

 a blanket. The Second Inner Overcoat is then telescoped down over the 

 first. (The Inner Overcoats are removed in the spring and stored away in the 

 flat.) This insulates the colony with a % inner hive wall, with a flour sack 

 and burlap wrapped about it, two thicknesses of corrugated paper board 

 around the sides and ends and four thicknesses over the top, together with 

 the intervening air spaces and the % outer hive wall. The work is done 

 quickly and easily with no litter of packing materials. 



It will pay you to try out a sample shipment this fall. For the next 60 days, 

 we will furnish five hives equipped as shown above for .$27.50, f. o. b., here. 



TIN HONEY PACKAGES. 

 2 lb. Friction top cans, cases of 24 Special Prices. 



2 lb. Friction top cans, crates of 612 ^ ^ ^ ■, n,^ ^ j -i ' <^ o rvn 



2 '72 lb. Friction top cans cases of 24 Crates of 100 five-pound pai s $8.00 



21/2 lb. Friction top cans, crates of 450 Crates of 200 five-pound pai s 15.00 



5 lb. Friction top pails, cases of 12 grates of 100 ten-pound pails 12.50 



5 lb. Friction top pails, crates of 100 Sixty-poimds cans, two in a case, per 



5 lb. Friction top pails, crates of 203 ^^^^ '^ ■ ^^ 



10 lb. Friction top pails, cases of 6 Shipments made from Michigan, Ohio, U- 



10 lb. Friction top pails, crates of 113 linois and Maryland factories. 



A. G. Woodman Co., Grand Rapids, Mich., U. S. A. 



