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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



October 



things considered, especially as they 

 can be made for any sized section and 

 used on any size of hive. 



Now about making and using wide 

 frames : Get all the pieces out true 

 and square, after which nail them 

 over a true square form. If you wish 

 to use them on the tiering plan make 

 both top and bottom five-sixteenths of 

 an inch narrower than the ends ; if to 

 be used only one tier high then have 

 the top the thickness of the tin wider 

 than the sides or ends. After using, 

 several kinds of material for separa- 

 tors I prefer tin to anything else. The 

 nailing on of this tin has much to do 

 with our liking or disliking wide 

 frames, for if nailed on loosely so as 

 to kink and bulge the operator will 

 soon become disgusted with them. 

 After trying various plans of nailing 

 on the tin I hit on the following, 

 which is the best of anything 1 know 

 of: I made a form a trifle shorter than 

 the wide frame was long, outside 

 measure, this form being perfectly 

 true and square. Next 1 made a block 

 the size of the inside of the frame, 

 except a little shorter, and of the same 

 thickness as the ends to the frame, 

 which was tacked to the form. To use 

 it I strung or bent the top and bottom 

 bars of the frame a little outward, 

 thus shortening it, until it went into 

 the forms when I laid on the tin sep- 

 arator, placing a straight edge on top 

 of the tin and a weight on this. I now 

 had the tin just where I wanted it 

 with all the bulging taken out, when 

 it was nailed fast to the wide frame. 

 Upon removing it from the form the 

 top and bottom sprung back into place 

 again, thus drawing the separator as 

 tight as a drum head. They were 

 now ready to be filled with sections 



and used in any desired manner. If 

 I wish to use them with a hive having 

 a hood or cap I use properly made 

 thin boards as wide as the wide frames 

 are deep and in the ends of these 

 boards, which are used to close up the 

 sides to the two outside wide frames, 

 a nail is driven. The boards are now 

 put in place and one end of a coiled 

 wire spring, (such as are used to hold 

 the shades of hanging lamps), is hook- 

 ed over one of the nails. A string of 

 suitable length is fastened to the other 

 end and wound around the nail in the 

 opposite board in such a way that this 

 string is held as securely as if tied. 

 The other end is fixed with spring and 

 string in the same way, wheft by draw- 

 ing the string, before winding aroutd 

 the nails till a strong tention is made, 

 the wide frames are held as in a vice, 

 yet they will give all the lateral move- 

 ment required and can be taken off as 

 one case or separately, tiered up, in- 

 verted, etc., as is required. Where 

 there is no hood or cap to the hive 

 they are used in supers and keyed up 

 the same as are sections where T tins 

 are used. 



Borodino, N. Y. 



won't you give your love to me ? 



We have just received a copy of the above- 

 named beautiful song witli a splendid waltz 

 chorus. It is now being sung in all the 

 prominent theatres in New York, Boston 

 and Philadelphia. The following are the 

 words of the chorus : 



Won't you give your love to me and take my heart. 

 Ever to abide with yours alone, sweetheart? 

 There to dwell through all eternity — 

 Darling, won't you g ve your love, your love to me ? 



Price 40 cents per copy. All readers of 

 our magazine will receive a copy at half 

 price by sending 20 cents in silver or pos- 

 tage stamps to The Union Mutual Music 

 Co., 2t)5 (Sixth Avenue, New Yoik. 



