FIFTY YEARS A^IONG THE BEES 39 



T SUPER. 



In the latter part of the same year I attended the 

 North American convention at Toronto, Canada, and 

 while there D. A. Jones showed me the T super (Fig. 5). 

 I was much impressed with it. The next year I put a 

 number of T supers in use, and the more I tried them 

 the better I liked them. I have tried a number of other 

 kinds since, but nothing that has made me desire to 

 make a change. 



THICK TOP-BARS. 



When attending that same convention, that very 

 practical Canadian bee-keeper, J. B. Hall, showed me his 

 thick top-bars, and told me that they prevented the build- 

 ing of so much burr-comb between the top-bars and the 

 sections. Although I made no immediate practical use 

 of this knowledge, it had no little to do with my using 

 thick top-bars afterwards. I was at that time using the 

 Heddon slat honey-board (Fig. 6) and the use of it with 

 the frames I then had was a boon. It kept the bottoms 

 of the sections clean, but when it was necessary to open 

 the brood-chamber there was found a solid mass of honey 

 between the honey-board and- the top-bars. It was some- 

 thing of a nuisance, too, to have this extra part in the 

 way, and I am very glad that at the present day it can 

 be dispensed with by having top-bars 1% inch wide and 

 ]/s inch thick, with a space of 34 i^^ch between top-bar and 

 section. Not that there is an entire absence of burr- 

 combs, but near enough to it so that one can get along 

 much more comfortably than with the slat honey-board. 

 At any rate there is no longer the killing of bees that 

 there was every day the dauby honey-board was re- 

 placed. 



But it would take up space unnecessarily to follow 

 farther the course of the years, especially as these later 

 years are familiar to more of my readers than are the 

 former years, so I will proceed to fulfill my chief purpose 



