336 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



showed nine pounds gain. They will make a good gain off from 

 a good field of alfalfa a mile distant, and I would count on a good 

 deal of surplus from one and one-half miles. Two years ago one 

 of my neighbors had a yard two miles from the only orchard that 

 was sprayed, and the bees carried enough arsenate of lead from 

 the fruit bloom at that distance to kill some of the colonies outright. 



THE HANBIiINCr OF BAITS. 



Unfinished sections can be disposed of best as baits the follow- 

 ing year. Xever dispose of an unfinished section unless you are 

 sure you have all the baits you need for the next season. Uncap 

 *and extract them and then put them away as careful!}' as your 

 mother used to store away her preserves. They mean even more 

 to you. If you are like me and do not know where to buy a knife 

 to uncap them, take one of the iron or steel straps that come around 

 sheet iron roofing, and nail two pieces of half-inch board "straddle" 

 of it for a distance of about six inches to form a handle ; then bend 

 an oft'set in about like that in a Bingham uncapping knife and cut 

 it off so as to leave a blade about the right length, to go down in the 

 sections. Sharpen this blade and w4th two knives of this pattern 

 heated in a small pot of boiling water you can uncap these sections 

 well and quickl}'. Begin your cut at the middle of the section and 

 cut to one side, then skip back to the middle and uncap the other 

 half. If you do not have baskets to contain these sections in the 

 extractor baskets, take a piece of half-inch board the size that two 

 sections will just stand on and leave it sticking out slightly at each 

 end; through these ends bore small holes and in these holes tie the 

 two ends of a hay wire so that the loop will be just large enough 

 to take eight sections standing on top of each other in pairs. Take 

 the hay wire in one hand and let the half-inch slat or bottom piece 

 into the basket of the extractor; set two sections on it and let down 

 in the basket far enough to take two more sections, and so on until 

 you have eight, or one extractor basket full. When they are 

 extracted, catch hold of the wire and lift them all out at once. By 

 pressing down on the top sections with the thumb you can swing 

 the eight sections around over your head if you like, or you can 

 instantly drop them out of the wire basket. This little contrivance 

 can be made in less time than it takes to tell it, and it is no "dinky" 

 little thing to fool away time with but a thing that a busy man can 

 save time with in extracting thousands of bait section^. 



rASTElIING FOUNDATION IN SHAI.I.OW FRAMES. 



Fasten foundation in shallow extract frames where the grooves 

 are filled with wax by scraping the frame first with a knife and then 

 standing the frame on its top l^ar; take a hardwood stick with an 



