THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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The}^ should be hung by nails eis de- 

 scribed in a former issue of the Re- 

 view. But the nails there mentioned 

 are too small; 8-penny Mnishing- should 

 be used. A larg-e nail is apt to split 

 the wood if no precaution is used. All 

 tliat is necessary is to clamp the pieces 

 is a hand vice. The pressure will 

 pre\ent the splitting- of the pieces while 

 being- nailed. The nails rest on the 

 tin rabbets. Or, instead of a tin rab- 

 bet, a strip of tin nailed to the inside 

 of the hive. It is best to cut a slig-ht 

 notch at each place where the nails are 

 to rest. This will secure well-spaced 

 distances, hold the frames in place, 

 and yet permit the apiarist to push 

 them apart when he desires to do so. 

 In fact, it secures the advantages of 

 both loose and fixed frames. When 

 the idea of cutting these notches occur- 

 red to me, I thought myself quite an 

 inventor, but soon found out that others 

 had preceded me. 



WIRING. 



The wires should be close enough 

 together to prevent any serious buck- 

 ling or stretching. Not less than two 

 inches apart, anyway. There is no 

 need of fastening the foundation to the 

 top bar. All that is necessary is to 

 place the top wire near the top-bar, 

 say J4 of an inch, or even less. I have 

 a machine of my invention with which 

 I can wire my frames very rapidly, 

 but it could not be described without 

 figures. 



A French paper states that buckling 

 of foundjition is due to the fact that the 

 foundation is put in at a comparatively 

 low temperature, and that the buckling 

 is the result of the expansion of the 

 wax due to the high temperature of the 

 hive. He claims that when the wiring 

 is done in a very warm room, with the 

 wax nearly fully expanded, there will 

 be no subsequent buckling. I have not 

 tried that plan yet, but will do so at 

 the first opportunity. 



Nearly all bee-keepers have but 

 little to do in winter time. When 



nothing else can be done, profitably, 

 everything saved by making hives or 

 other necessary' appliances is that 

 much clear gain. And there is some- 

 thing else; there is the pleasure and 

 interest j'ou take in planning and ex- 

 perimenting. Don't think you will 

 succeed at once. Every time you under- 

 take something new, woodwork, black- 

 smith work, tin work (especially the 

 latter), you will make mistakes. You 

 have to learn, just as every bodj' else 

 does. But don't be discouraged. Try 

 again, and again, and again. The 

 greater the difficulties the greater will 

 be the satisfaction when at last suc- 

 cess comes. Carefulness and perse- 

 verance will make up what you may 

 lack in natural gi'fts. Until you have 

 experienced it, 3'ou have no idea of the 

 intense satisfaction, the pleasure, the 

 triumph that will come to you, when, 

 after vanquishing numerous difili- 

 culties, you finally succeed. And there 

 is profit, also. I made my own ex- 

 tractor. The materials cost only a 

 little more than a dollar, and yet the 

 instrument is as large and as good as 

 those sold for $12.00 or $13.00. 



Knoxville, Tenn., Jan. 18, 1904. 



[When a man puts up an argument 

 against me, when he "puts me in a 

 hole," or it looks as though he had, 

 tlien I delight in publishing- what he 

 says. It is a pleasure to answer arg- 

 ument with argument, or else "own 

 up." I have a great number of excel- 

 lent articles on hive-making, but the 

 way in which the foregoing starts out 

 is one reason why I made a place for 

 it. I am just as much a believer in 

 specialty as I ever was, but I never 

 believed, nor argued, that a man 

 should never so much as lay his hand 

 to more than one thing. A man should 

 take some one business, and make 

 that his leading business, but there 

 may be several other minor side-lines 

 that are tributary. Suppose a man's 

 main business is that of producing 



