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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



Oct. 1 



FIG. 14. — SHAKING BEES OUT OF A SUPER. 



by super, place the escape on the brood-nest 

 or on a super partly filled, then one by one 

 put back the supers. If no honey is coming 

 in, this will probably mean that robbers will 

 get started. 



There is no need of removing any super, 

 nor a cover, for that matter. All that is 

 necessary is to apply the principles illus- 

 trated in Figs. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, IL The fol- 

 lowing additional series of what we may call 

 moving-picture snap shots will show the or- 

 thodox procedure for putting on escape- 

 boards. First, the hive-tool is entered be- 

 tween the pair of supers where the escape is 

 to be placed, as shown in Fig. 5. At the 

 time of doing this the board is placed con- 

 veniently near, usually leaning against the 

 knee of the operator. The hive-tool is en- 

 tered between the two parts of the hive, 

 smoke is blown in the gap thus made, when 

 the smoker is set down on the ground and 

 the hive-tool is left sticking in between the 

 two parts. The left hand lifts the hive up at 

 one end, giving it a slight hitch forward at 

 the same time. The escape-board is now 

 picked up and inserted in the gap made as 

 shown in the second posture of the next en- 

 graving. It is shoved as far as it will go 

 when tbe upper part of the hive or super is 

 let down. See position 3 and 4. The last 

 step is to bring the bee-escape board and the 

 upper part of the hive in alignment with the 

 lower part. All of this is very., easily done. 



with no heavy lifting. It ought not to take 

 more than half a minute to the hive. 



At one time one of our men went down to 

 an outyard to put on bee-escapes. He used 

 the old way of pulling the hive apart; and as 

 it was during a dearth of honey he got a good 

 many robbers started, and not a few stings. 

 We later sent another man down who put on 

 twice or three times as many escapes in the 

 same time without a robber showing, and 

 without any stings. It is needless to say that 

 the last man used the plan shown in the il- 

 lustrations. 



FULL SHEETS VS. STARTERS 

 COMB HONEY. 



FOR 



Can Really Good Comb Honey Be Pro- 

 duced by the Use of Full Sheets? 

 a Spirited Rejoinder. 



BY DR. C. C. MILLER. 



I have read with very much interest the 

 article of F. Greiner, page 528. His idea of 

 "giving due consideration to all — producer, 

 dealer, and consumer," is certainly the right 

 one — hard to do that at all times unselfishly, 

 "not looking, "as Paul says, "each of you to 

 his own things, but each of you also to the 

 things of others." The greatest good to the 

 greatest number is not always considered. 



There's the matter of glassed sections — al- 



