AUGUST 15, 1913 



was bad for i)lioto,araiiliin,C'; ))nt it is so 

 siiii|ile I hat I ])resnnie all will see fhrouiiii 

 the scheme easily. 



Allow me, Mr. Kditor. lo (all youf alteii- 

 lioii to a mistake or two in voui' leceiit edi- 

 torial comments. 



You said, " If not mistaken, Morion in- 

 vented the telescojie swarm-catcher." Noi)e! 

 " I seed it tirst." Then you think that Ca- 

 nuck. Holtermann, has the biiigest extract- 

 or. Xit ! only 12 frames. Our merry-go- 

 I'ouud throws 16 at a time, reverses like a 

 Cowan, and I can take it to pieces by tak- 

 ing' out a few bolts, screws, turn-buckles, 

 and unhooking wires; nest the whole thing 

 into a small space, take it to an outyard, 

 and set it up again. 



This county is three times as large as the 

 whole State of Rhode Island, and contains 

 (so they say) 360 beekeepers. They elect- 

 ed me president of their beekeepers' club, 

 but 1 ha\'e met only 6 of those 360 so far. 



Jamesburg, Cal. 



HOW TWO SWARMS OF BEES WERE CARRIED 

 HOME 



BY J. W. STINE 



I am enclosing a picture of " a good 

 catch " in the way of two swarms which I 

 cai)tured five miles east of Salem while out 

 on an inspection tour. One swarm is in 

 the nail-keg in the seat by my side, and the 

 other I put in a sack and hung it on the 

 side of the bup'o'v. Both swarms are doing 

 fine work in the supers now. They were 

 captured the hrst week in June. I thought 

 possibly this might be a new way of carry- 

 ing bees. 



Salem. Iowa. 



WIRE CLOTH AS A SUBSTITUTE FOR WOOD 

 IN BEE-ESCAPE BOARDS 



BY ARTHUR F. HODGSON 



During the past season I did considerable 

 experimenting with the bee-escape boards 

 with gratifying success. I think that the 

 I'esult of these experiments would be of 



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Can-.viiis two swarms, one in a keg and the other 

 in a sack. 



GALVANIZED SCREEN WIRE CLOTH 



value, especially to large jn-oducers of ex- 

 tracted honey. So far as I know, bee-escape 

 boards have been made of wood, the idea 

 being to make a complete separation (except 

 one way through the bee escape) between 

 the super or supers to be removed and the 

 hive below. 



In queen-rearing operations I have notic- 

 ed the peculiar effect of wire cloth as a 

 partial separation between bees, and this 

 led me to construct a bee-escape board en- 

 tirely of this material (except for the neces- 

 sary rim and cross-piece containing the bee- 

 escapes). In a twelve-frame hive I think 

 that the two escapes are a decided advan- 

 tage. 



The enclosed drawing will illustrate the 

 idea. The advantages are that the su^jers 

 are very rapidly freed from bees, and the 

 deserted combs are not shut oft' *rom the 

 heat of the hive. In cool weather this is a 

 decided advantage where combs are to be 

 extracted, and in hot weather it is equally 

 advantageous, as the bees do not feel their 

 contracted quarters as much, considerable 

 heat being taken up by the beeless combs 

 above. 



It may be argued that bees separated by 

 wire cloth would pass honey through to 

 their fellows below (even during the few- 

 hours there are bees on both sides of the 



