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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



pressure keeps out the propolis, or if 

 any gets in it is squeezed out so that 

 accumulations cause no trouble. 



These supers can be handled any 

 side up about as safely as if they were 

 so many blocks of solid wood. No 

 frames are ever handled separately 

 until they come to the extracting room, 

 when the screws are loosened and the 

 whole dumped out upside down. They 

 are freed from bees by the use of a bee 

 escape or by Rambler's jouncer, a 

 valuable invention, though I had used 

 the same principle for a long time. 

 It will be seen that the change from 



one kind of a super to another requires 

 very little time or handling. 



Briefly, the advantages of the system 

 are that you secure more honey, a 

 higher grade of comb honey, save a 

 great deal of waste, and do it with a 

 control of the bees and an economy of 

 labor that can be secured by no other 

 method that I am familiar with. 



This is not theory. I first gave this 

 sj'stem to the public about fourteen 

 years ago, and, for a longer time than 

 that, it has been the plan on which m3' 

 apiaries have been managed. 

 Grand Junction, Colo., Nov. 13, 1903. 



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BY E. D. TOWNSEND. 



^^HE clover and basswood honey 

 ^^ season closes in this locality about 

 Jul3'^ 15th, and as soon as the honey is 

 cured, (usually a week after the flow 

 stops) we are ready to extract. 



I think I will invite the reader to 

 go with me after a wheelbarrow load 

 of honey; then we can work and talk 

 at the same time. You better put on 

 this veil, as there is no honey coming 

 in now, and there will be robbers 

 around, so we must figure on the bees 

 being a little cross. Then I will light 

 up the 3^ -inch Bingham smoker. I 

 like quite a large smoker while ex- 

 tracting; at other seasons I do not need 

 so much smoke, and a smaller smoker 

 is more convenient. This smoker fuel 

 is cut from hard maple. The blocks 

 are cut A}2 inches long, then split up, 

 as you see, about ^ inch square. 

 This fuel gives a good, dense smoke; 

 and the beauty of it is, it lasts so long. 

 This is quite a saving of time, and as 

 this is our busy season, it is worth 



considering. A smoker to handle this 

 kind of fuel, should have a conical cover 

 like the Bingham. 



Now I will put this empty upper 

 story on the wheelbarrow. You will 

 notice that this wheelbarrow has a 

 20-inch wheel, with a 2^'^ -inch tire, 

 and, if I could find one with a 24-inch 

 wheel, I think it would be all the 

 better. We will also need this robber- 

 cloth, and a pry with which to loosen 

 the frames and upper stories. This 

 pry is made from a leaf of an old 

 buggy spring, broken in two in the 

 center where the bolt hole is. Each 

 leaf makes two, and they are all ready 

 to use. Now I will wet the ends of 

 this robber-cloth, so it will do its work 

 better. We are now ready to go out 

 in the 3'ard. 



LITTLE, TIME-SAVING KINKS. 



You will notice that I draw my 

 wheelbarrow ^^/nV/fl' me going out, then, 

 in all the yard work, it never has to 

 be turned around. A little thing to 



