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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Dec. 15 





honey in the su- 

 per as when they 

 were not used. 



1 was not sur- 

 prised as to the 

 effect the use of 

 this board had 

 on decreasing the 

 stain on the 

 combs in the su- 

 per. Those sec- 

 tions occupying 

 the center, in- 

 stead of being 

 the most stained 

 were the least so, 

 while those on 

 the outside, while 

 somewhat stain- 

 ed, were not so 

 bad by a long 

 way as those in 

 the center had 

 been without the 

 use of a board. 



I was so well 

 pleased that later 

 I made boards to 

 cover most of my 

 hives. Later ex- 

 perience with 

 them has been 

 very satisfactory. 

 During the past 

 season I have 

 used them on a 

 large portion of 

 my hives run for 

 comb honey. I 

 found an occa- 

 sional hive that 

 did not appear to 

 have finished off 

 its combs as well 

 as though no 

 board had been 

 used. It is not 

 necessary to put 

 the board on un- 

 til the bees are 

 ready to cap the honey in the super, and not even 

 then if the first super is raised up and an empty 

 one placed under it. When they finally begin 



A FLOCK OF WHITE LEGHORNS OCCUPIED THIS TENT ALL WINTER AT THE STATE 

 AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE GROUNDS, STORRS, CONN. — SEE POULTRY 

 DEPARTMENT ON ANOTHER PAGE. 



I had not used for many years. I send a draw- 

 ing of one of them. It is made of !4^-inch stuff 

 ■except the strips around the outside, which are 

 yi inch thick, so as to give a bee-space of % inch 

 between the bottom of the super and the top of 

 the honey-board. On each side is a half-inch 

 opening leading from the brood-chamber up into 

 the bee-space below the super. This opening in- 

 to the brood-chamber is where the combs are the 

 lightest or least stained. The middle part of the 

 board is what I call "the storm-center " of the 

 travel-stain, both in brood-chamber and super. 



After studying the subject carefully I came to 

 the conclusion that such a board offered the best 

 solution for checking the carrying-up of soiled 

 wax from below into the super. I made quite a 

 lot of them for trial the following season; yet so 

 fearful was I that it would reduce the amount of 

 honey in the supers that I used but few of them 

 the following season; but the few I used surprised 

 me in that the bees seemed to store just as much 



HONEY-BOARD TO PREVENT TRAVEL- 

 STAINED SECTIONS. 



