JANUARY 15, 1913 



Beekeeping in the South^vest 



Louis Scholl, New Braunfels, Texas. 



THE SCHOLL IMPROVED HIVE-NUMBERS. 



The accompanying illustrations will give 

 a veiy good idea of the hive-numbers of 

 my own design Avhich I have used for a 

 number of years. Though everlasting they 

 are easy to make for an}^ style of hive in 

 use, quickl}^ interchangeable from one iDart 

 of a hive to another, or from hive to hive. 

 No nails, staples, nor any tiling of the kind 

 are necessary to hold them in place; and in 

 this way they overcome the greatest objec- 

 tion to practically all the hive-numbers so 

 far invented. This advantage is especially 



from one to another in case the hives are 

 interchanged or changed end for end. They 

 are easily made by simply cutting pieces of 

 galvanized iron 2V2 s 3 inches, snipping off 

 the two upper corners, as indicated, and 

 then bending over the ends to hang over 

 the upper edges of the liives. They are 

 easily bent or folded over in any common 

 bench-vise. By means of a small piece of 

 hard wood the exact ^^'idth of the upper 

 edge of the hive in use, clamped in the vise, 

 a gauge for each number-tag is obtained 

 that insures all being folded alike. 



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Fig. 1. — Scholl improved hive-numbers, showing how the galvanized iron is folded and adapted to 

 various styles of hives. 



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Fig. 2. — Numbers for the rubber stamps; simple, plain, and bold, hence easily read. 



marked when hives are composed of many 

 shallow stories, as with our divisible-brood- 

 ( liamber hives. Then, too, in the old sj^s- 

 lem of numbering it is a nuisance and ex- 

 pense to keep nails, staples, or hooks in 

 proper repair, on each end of every deep 

 liive-body or shallow story. I say on each 

 end of every hive or story, because it be- 

 comes necessaiy to change the numbers 



Thej' are easily numbered by using a set 

 of only nine numbers, as shown in Fig. 2. 

 It will be observed that only one stamp is 

 necessary for the 6 and 9, as the former can 

 be reversed to 23rint the latter. A simple 

 home-made cotton pad can be supi^lied, cov- 

 ering the cotton batting with a piece of tliin 

 domestic. I used good solid black coach 

 l^aint, and find that it lasts admirably. Of 

 Continued on page 59. 



