FIFTY YEARS AMOXG THE BEES 33 



parts upon it. In June Gleanings in Bee Culture my let- 

 ter appeared in full, pencil sketch and all, and he sent me 

 a round sum in payment for the letter, but no word of 

 instruction as to any better way ! I hardly knew whether 

 to be glad or mad. 



WIDE FRAMES. 



The sections were put in wide frames, double-tier, 

 making a frame hold eight sections (Fig. 3). I had an 

 arrangement by which the sections, after having been 

 lightly started together, were all punched into the frame 

 at one stroke, driving them together at the same time, 

 and another arrangement punched them out after they 

 were filled with honey. The super in which they were 

 put was the same in size as the 10-frame brood-cham- 

 ber — in fact there was no difference whatever in the two 

 except that the bottom-board was nailed onto the brood- 

 chamber and an entrance cut into it. The super held 

 seven frames, and that made 56 sections in a super. 

 Lifting these supers when they were filled was no child's 

 play, especially when loading them on the wagon at an 

 out-apiary, and unloading them at home, as I had to 

 do in later years. 



BROOD-COMBS AS BAITS. 



In order to start the bees promptly to work in the 

 sections, a frame of brood was raised from below, and 

 the sections facing this brood were occupied by the bees 

 at once if honey was coming in. Care had to be taken 

 not to leave the brood too long, for if the bees commenced 

 to seal the sections while it was there they would be 

 capped very dark, the bees carrying some of the old, 

 black comb over to the sections to be used in the capping. 



BEE-KEEPING SOLE BUSINESS. 



In 1878, at the close of the school year in June, 1 

 decided to give up teaching for a time, and since that 



