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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Apr. 29, 



shelter the back ; size. 13x18M- E, entrance, 8xp^. If wide 

 lumber is scarce, the sides of the hives may be made of matcht 

 lumber, care being taken to break joints and to turn them so 

 as to shed water. 



H, strip J<xl%xlS.^', used to widen the top edge of the 

 hive in front. This looks superfluous, and yet we prize it very 

 much. One of the greatest objections we have to the cheap 

 hives is the almost utter impossibility to fit a tight cover over 

 the frames during cool spring weather. When the hives are 

 new and dry all goes like magic, and everything fits minutely ; 

 but after they have been in the weather two or three years, the 

 joints warp, they become filled with propolis, and every time 

 you remove the cover you have to use a chisel to pry it apart, 

 and make the joint that much worse. A wide top edge and a 

 telescoping cover do away with all this, and the wide edge al- 

 lows us to fit an oil-cloth, or enamel-cloth, carefully over the 

 frames, without leaving any uncovered joints at the ends. 

 The robbers do not get a chance, and things are much more 

 satisfactory. Perhaps some of my readers have had experi- 



tractlng-frames, same top-bar, same bottom-bar; end-bars I4X 

 Kx6. 



This is a rather dry description, but with the help of the 

 illustrations the reader can surely make it clear. 



Fig. 3 represents two extracting-supers such as we use. 



Honey sections may be used, for comb honey, by making 

 a section-case holding 32 or 36 sections. One has but to 

 choose from the mauy styles in use. 



If comb honey is wanted, the hive had best be reduced at 

 the beginning of the honey harvest, by the use of the division- 

 board or dummy to the number of frames actually filled with 

 brood. This is what our leading beekeepers, in the East, do, 

 and they also use large hives — so I was told by one of our 

 prominent editors, who praises small hives for all that. But 

 we never reduce the size of the hive for extracting, and do not 

 care where the bees put the honey, so we may be able to keep 

 them supplied with all the combs they need. 



Hancock Co., 111. 



Fig. ^Showing the Spacing-Wire. {Cuts from Langstroffi Revised by Dadant.) Fig. 3— Two Extracting-Sxipers. 



ence with open corners, and having to fit mud, or bits of pine, 

 or even grass, in those joints, when the weather is cool and 

 the robbers plentiful. There are times when it looks as if even 

 the bees of that hive were hovering around that crack to 

 make you think they were trying to rob their own hive, and 

 destroy your peace of mind. 



G, G, 4 pieces, 2 for sides, lj^x24; 2 for ends, IJixlS's'. 

 Cap or cover, to telescope over the hive. P, P, front, back 

 and sides of cap, two pieces for sides, 8j<x24 ; two for ends, 

 8JiJxl8>a'. These may be made 1 inch longer and halved into 

 the sides to nail both ways, and the same thing may be done 

 with the body. Top of cap, flat, 21x'25 inches. Wo make 

 this of matcht lumber, and use a roof over the hive made of 

 rough boards to shed the rain and shelter the hive from the 

 sun. A well-palntod hive, sheltered in this way, should last 

 till the combs are too old to be of any use— 30 years or more. 



Extracting super : sides, two pieces, (i%x21 ; ends, two 

 pieces, 6%xl(j, rabbeted for frame shoulders the same as the 

 body. This makes the extractlng-super }4 inch narrower than 

 the lower story, so the cap fits over it readily. Ten frames 

 only are used in the super and ton frames and one division- 

 board in the body. IJody frames : Top-bar, 1 Vx20;4, triangular 

 or square as desired; shoulder at each end 1"^. End-bars, 

 two pieces, %xi^xllJi. Bottom-bar, 13/16x>ixl8. Ex- 



Bee-Stiugs Cure Toothache and Rheumatism. 



BY S. A. DEACON. 



I used to be a martyr to toothache, but since I have been 

 engaged in bee-keeping I have often congratulated myself up- 

 on a comparative immunity from this, one of the most terri- 

 ble of all the ills to which human flesh is heir. 



Owing to prolonged drought, I have fust very little 

 lately with the bees, my son doing what little required to be 

 done amongst the hives ; and where being stung, and that sev- 

 eral times, was an almost daily and unheeded occurrence, it is 

 now several months since I have had a sting ; and lately I have 

 been suffering agonies from aching old stumps and newly de- 

 caying teeth, and a glass containing a solution of carbonate 

 of soda — the only thing, I find, that gives relief — was, day and 

 night, never beyond my reach. 



One night, recently — about 8 days ago — when just dozing 

 off to sleep, another and almost forgotten enemy, in the shape 

 of sharp, rheumatic pains in the legs, suddenly made Its reap- 

 pearance. The teeth had a respite, meantime, as tho the same 

 pain had descended into the lower limbs, so that tho in great 

 agony, I could not resist saying to my son — whom my groans 

 had awakened, and who called to know if my teeth were troub- 

 ling me more than usual — that the infernal pains had shifted 



