FIFTY YEARS AAIOXG THE BEES 209 



is an addition built onto my dwelling-house. It is 20x15 

 feet, and the floor-timbers are blocked up with stones so 

 that it will sustain a great weight without breaking. 



A\'hen the supers of sections are taken in, they are 

 piled up near the center of the room with no very great 

 precision, usually being piled crosswise, that is, each 

 super placed across the one under it, for the double pur- 

 pose of ventilation and to make it easier to lift the supers 

 off the pile than they would be if piled straight and stuck 

 together with bee-glue. 



PUSH-BOARD. 



Perhaps the sections will be taken out of the supers 

 the next day. possibly not for a week or more. A push- 

 board (Fig. TG) is used to push the sections out of the 

 super. This is made as follows : 



Take a board IQ^i inches long and 11 inches wide. 

 Take boards 12 inches long and ^ inch thick and nail 

 them across the first board so as to just cover its length, 

 rmd project ^ inch at each side. This makes a surface 

 1 69/^x12 inches. If this board be now put inside an 

 empty T-super, and the T-super raised, it will be seen 

 that the board will easily drop through the super, ex- 

 cept where it is upheld by the three T-tin supports on 

 eich side. Places must be cut out of the board so that 

 the supports will present no hindrance. In order to 

 make these places abundantly large, I cut them 1^2x3^ 

 inch. When cut out. the measure will be, from the cor- 

 ner of the board to the first place or hole, 3^ inches, 

 then 1^2 inches for the hole, then 2 13-lG inches to the 

 next hole. Pleasure the same way from each of the 

 other three corners, and you will have on each side three 

 holes that will allow the supports of the T-tins to pass 

 through without obstruction. 



Occasionally, after pushing sections out with the 

 push-board. I found at the lower part of some of the cen- 

 tral sections some of the cells looking watery, showing 



