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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTUREr 



JUNE 15 



a business way was the junior part- 

 ner of W. T. Falconer, of the VV. 

 T. Falconer Mfg. Co., so well 

 known to our readers. 



He started in business originally 

 as a clerk in a wholesale grocery, 

 and later was appointed paymaster 

 in the United States Navy, finally 

 entering the Signal Service. After 

 this he was a book-keeper in a num- 

 ber of large institutions. In 1882 

 he started the manufacture of the 

 Empire washing-machine, on which 

 he obtained several patents. A 

 little later he entered into partner- 

 ship with W. T. Falconer, form- 

 ing what is now known as the 

 W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. The 

 washing-machine business appears 

 to have been taken over, and later 

 on the company went into the 

 manufacture of advertising novel- 

 ties, including rules, thermome- 

 ters, and other specialties of a like 

 nature, the making of bee-supplies 

 being continued as before. 



It is almost needless to say that 

 the manufacturing business of 

 the W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. will go on as before. 



WHAT A 17-YEAR-OLD BOY CAN DO. 



Wiring Frames Without Piercing the End- 

 bars. 



BY VVM. M. HASSLER. 



The two boys shown in the engraving are my 

 brothers, who are very much interested in bees, 

 especially the younger one, who is eleven years 

 old. 



I commenced keeping bees myself four years 

 ago with one box hive, when I was 17 years old. 

 I now have 15 colonies in Danzen baker hives, with 

 11-inch telescope covers. I winter them on the 

 summer stands, and have always had good suc- 

 cess. I make a brick of hard candy for each 

 hive, and put it over the frames (a la Abbott), 

 and I believe it is a good thing. From nine col- 

 onies, spring count, I produced nearly 500 lbs. of 

 comb and extracted honey; but most of it was 

 No. 1 and fancy comb in 4X5 sections. I think 



THE HASSLER BROTHERS, OF PRINCETON, ILLS. 



ing frames.? Drive two nails, about 1 ''2 inches 

 long, in each end-bar; bend them into hooks, 

 and wire, as shown in the diagram. 

 Princeton, III, Feb. 17. 



[If your fences are made with the proper-sized 

 bee-spaces, and the bees persist in gnawing the 

 slats, it would be best to supersede the queen. 

 It is not often that the bees give much trouble in 

 this way unless the slats are too close together. 



In the end your method of wiring the frames 

 will not prove to be very satisfactory. The 

 foundation at the point where the wires cross is 

 held rigidly; and since there is nothing to prevent 

 the upper half from sagging, buckling is quite 

 often the result. This plan, known as the Keeny, 

 has been used for years, and, so far as we know, 

 has been generally abandoned. — Ed.] 



ASPINWALL SLATTED FRAMES. 



Using them ^vith Langstroth and Hoffman 

 Brood-combs, to Prevent Swarmintr, 

 not Likely to Prove Successful; Closed- 

 end Frames in a Box vs. Closed-end 

 Frames in a Rack or Frame. 



BY L. A. ASPINWALL. 



most of the honey was from smartweed, which 

 grew in abundance after the hailstorm which 

 swept this part of the country and ruined the 

 crops. 



How can I prevent bees from gnawing the 

 fences.? What do you think of this way of wir- 



[in order that our readers may better understand the points 

 brought out by the inventor (Mr. Aspinwall.of the Aspinwall non- 

 swarniing hive with its slatted dummy frames), the reader is refer- 

 red to the illustrations which we used in our issue for Nov. 15th, 1907, 

 pages 1441, 1442, and 1443, of this hive. We will explain that 

 we wrote Mr. Aspinwall that several were writing lis, asking 

 why those slatted dummies without the bee-space end-bars coulo 

 not be used in an ordinary Langstroth brood-nest, one dummy al- 

 ternating with every other brood-comb, increasing the capacity 

 by adding extra stores. Mr. Aspinwall answers this in the sub- 

 joined article. — Ed.] 



Many have asked why the Aspinwall slatted 

 frames could not be used in connection with 

 standard Langstroth and Hoffman frames, and 

 thus make a non-swarming hive. Apparently, at 

 first thought, the saving would be an advantage 



