Published Monthly by The W. T. Falconer Mfg. Co. 



Vol. XII 



JANUARY 1903 



No. I 



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NATURE. 



riiou art a friend that er^er hides U'illi me. 

 Steadfast ns sun to day or moon to night. 

 Or as the stars ^I'hirh shed revealing light 



O'er du'ky iiieadoiv and mysterious sen. 



Many 'wise lessons have I learnt of thee: 

 The winds have been my teachers, and 



the flowers. 

 The snows of 'winter, and 'he Teinal 

 flowers, 



A nd luhite clouds, sailing tranquilly 



Above tny head, ^ cross heai'en's radii 



joy to hno2v thy ministering 

 move 



In my behoof on tireless steps of love.' 

 Heart-discord now to calm has given placL 



1 "would be true ttthee. my heart /"■ thine- 

 Tke feebly-human to th'^ Sfrong-Diz'ine. 



— William Cowan. 



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Dummies. 



(By G. M. Doolittle.i 



SOMETIME ago I touched a little 

 upon dummies being used when 

 working for comb honey, so that 

 a better yield might be secured. A re- 

 quest comes in that I go more into de- 

 tails in the matter, explaining more 

 fully about how to make, use, and 

 what I do when I remove them from 

 the hive at the close of the white honey 

 harvest. This I will try to do, with the 

 permission of the editor. 



For ,a dummy to take the place of a 

 single frame I know of nothing better 

 than a piece of inch or seven-eighths 

 inch board, cutting the same just the 

 size of the frame, less the top bar. To 



this piece of board nail the top bar, 

 nailing it so it projects on either side 

 just the same as would be done when 

 making frames. At any time when we 

 wish to contract the hive just one 

 frame, take out the frame of comb and 

 hang this board or dummy in the place 

 of the frame, and you have a hive just 

 as good to all intents and purposes, as 

 if said hive had been made to take one 

 frame less. Or in other words, this 

 changes an eight-frame hive to a sev- 

 en-frame, a ten-frame hive to a nine- 

 frame, etc. If I wish to change an 

 eight-frame hive to a six, or a ten- 

 frame hive to an eight, I generally use 

 two such dummies, one on either side 

 of the hive, to take the place of two 

 frames removed. But, besides the dum- 

 mies made in this way, I make others 

 to take the place of two frames, and 

 these are made bj' nailing two frames 

 together and then covering the sides 

 with one-fourth or three-eighths stufif, 

 as these are lighter to handle, and as a 

 rule cost less than to use a piece of 

 two-inch plank, though the plank, or 

 two of the dummies first described, will 

 answer the purpose equally well. Any 

 cheap lumber will answer the purpose 

 for dummies just as well as the most 

 expensive, providing that, where 

 frames are covered with thin stuff, this 

 must be good enough so it will '"hold 



