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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 



December 



SEPARABLE CELLS. 



AS viewed by The Bee-keeper, the 

 ready separability of cells is a 

 most desirable feature. Nearly 

 all the methods of having cells con- 

 stucted do, in one sense, admit of their 

 being separated without inconvenience; 

 though with but few is it convenient to 

 detach or ini^ert any particular cell 

 which it may be desired to. The photo 

 herewith presented, from the Bee- 

 keepers' Review, illustrates a plan 

 which we had in use several months 

 with quite satisfactory results. The 



kerf and held in position by a brad 

 driven in the fold of the tin. Thus the 

 cell blocks were made readily removable 

 at will without the necessity of displac- 

 ing any other cells than those which it 

 was desired to remove. Our chief ob- 

 ject in using the block was to have the 

 cell attached to the top of the nursery 

 cage^which the block really was — 

 when this stage had been reached; as it 

 fitted snugly into the opening at the 

 top, leaving the cell suspended inside, 

 as shown in the cage at the right, from 

 which the wire screen front has been 



♦Mips were attaciied to square pieces 

 cut from section-boxes, and the block 

 slipped into grooves along the sides of 

 the supporting bar in the frame. This 

 |)ian would probably have been still in 

 use had not Mr. Pridgtui spoiled it all 

 by suggesting an obviously better way 

 of doing it. 



Pridgen sent us a sample bar hav- 

 ing tiny T-tiiis placed transversely, the 

 fold of tiic T being inserted in a saw 



removed to show the cell in position. 



Where a cage is designed to use the 

 cells without the block, there is really 

 no occasion for their use, providing 

 some means for the convenient separa- 

 tion, attachment and detachment of 

 cells is otherwise afforded. This is all 

 readily accomplished by another of Mr. 

 Pridgen's devices, for a sample of which 

 we are indebted to him. lie has in- 

 serted, at a distance of five-eighths of 



