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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 15. 



tions, and practically impossible to remove the 

 stain. A caseknife or a piece of steel having 

 sharp square edges will, with one sweep, clean 

 almost the whole fuur edges of the new sec- 

 tion at once. 



7. The new fence and section greatly sim- 

 plify the construction of the section-holder. 

 The' bottom, instead of being scored out to 

 correspond with the openings in the bottoms 

 of the sections, is one straight piece and of 

 the same width as the section itself. The end- 

 bars are also of equal width with the bottom- 

 bar. 



8. The new section is only 1 %. inches wide, 

 and yet will hold as much honey as the old 

 1% section with its openings; and conse- 

 quently the ordinary shipping-case will hold 

 from lo to 2-") per cent more honey, thus effect- 

 ing a substantial saving in cases to the bee- 

 keeper. 



The new section-.super with its fence and 

 straight-edge section is shown in the engrav- 

 ing. The section-holder appears in the front 

 with three sections. A fence appears at the 

 end in the super itself. The follow-board is 

 cleated the same as the fence ; so also is one 

 side of the super. With what I have already 

 said, the general construction of the super 

 will be plain. 



NO-BEE-WAY TALL SECTIONS AND FENCE. 



It is evident that there will be quite a de- 

 mand for deep sections for the season of 1898 ; 

 and we expect to l)e prepared to furnish the 

 4x5 Danzv section with no bee- ways, and 

 double-cl.-a'ted separator, in the Danzy supers. 

 The construction of the Danzy super is such 

 that either the regular Dan.zy stclion with one 

 bee-way, and separator cleated on one side 

 only, or the 4x5 sections no bee-way, and 

 fence cleated on boi/i sides. There are also 

 some who would desire to use a deep section 

 with no bee-ways, in their regular supers. 

 "We shall be prepared, also, to furnish a sec- 

 tion-supporling rack— a device that will both 

 support the sections and add to the depth of 

 the super. These deep sections will be about 

 the size of the Morton. They will be 1 >< by 

 Z% by o}^. The super will be practically the 

 same as Morton's shown in another column. 

 Illustrations will appear in a later issue, that 

 will show the plan. 



NEW-STYLE DANZY BOTTOM-BOAKD WITH ITS 

 DEEP ENTRANCE. 



I have already spoken of the advantage of 

 having large entrances — so large, indeed, that 

 it is not necessary for the bees to cluster out 

 in front in order to keep cool on hot days. I 

 have also shown that clustering out caused by 

 contracted entrances on hot days has a tenden- 

 cy to induce swarming. I hiive also proved, 

 to my own satisfaction at least, that a large 

 entrance cures, to a very great extent, this 

 clustering out, and will do away with at least 

 25 per cent of the swarms that now pester and 

 botlier us just when we want the bees to work 

 in the supers. 



The bottom-board that we have adopted for 

 our regular hive-equipment for 1898 is the 

 Danzy, and is shown herewith. We supplied 

 this o'n option last season, and the results have 



been so satisfactory that we have decided to 

 make it regular for the coming year. It is so 

 constructed that the bottom-board may be re- 

 vtrsed. One side pruvidts for an entrance ^ 



DANZY t.wi'rOM-BO.\RD. 



inch deep, the whole width of the hive ; and 

 the other — the side shown to the observer — % 

 inch deep. The shallow entrance may be used 

 during the robbing season. Dtiring hot weath- 

 er, when honey is coming in, the deep side 

 may be used. In the case of the old-style 

 bottom-board, it had to be removed entirely 

 for indoor wintering. But this is not true 

 with the new one, for the deep side may be 

 used next to the hive, and the hive carried 

 into the cellar, bottom-board and all.* 



STAPLE SPACERS FOR THICK-TOP FRAMES. 

 I have long known that there was a certain 

 class who do not exactly like the Hoffman 

 frame. They seek something that separates a 

 little more easily in the hive; and in localities 

 where propolis is deposited to any consider- 

 able ex.ent, a metal spacer may be preferable. 

 When 1 stopped at Frank Boomhower's, Gal- 

 lupville, N. Y., I fottnd he was using staples 

 as side spacers ; and when I questioned him 

 about it he said he had used ahiiost every 

 thing; but after having used these for several 

 seasons he was .sinipl}- delighted with them ; 

 and, what was more, his neighbors all around 

 him were beginning to supply their apiaries 

 with them. 



For .the season of 1898 we expect to equip 

 all our thick-top loose suspended frames with 

 staples. Each lot of 100 frames will contain 

 a suffcient number to staple them as per the 

 engraving. If the purchaser does not care to 

 use spacers at all, he need not put them on. 

 One staple is driven into the top-bar at each 

 diagonally opposite corner. None are used 

 in the end-bars, although they may be so 

 used if desired ; but for my part I prefer not 

 to have them. As the heads of the -spacers 

 are rounding they admit of the frame sliding 

 into position. The end staple used is the one 

 shown last season, and has given universal 

 satisfaction. We shall be prepared to furnish 

 our customers, on option, this style of frame 

 in preference to the Hoffman, when so ordered. 



* In relntion to these points, I find that a writer in 

 the Progressive Bee-keeper, speaking of a bctloni-board 

 with a deep entrance, .says: '" Fir.-t, 90 per cent of rob- 

 bing is done away with: 2d, with plentv of room un- 

 der the frame and plenty of store-room at the proper 

 time, swarming is dune away with; 3d, btes never lie 

 out on the outside of the hive with a large entrance; 

 and, Jth, when bees can not reach tht bottom of the 

 brood-frame on entering the- hive they are compelled 

 to crawl up on the inside of the hive, instead of going 

 up between the frames. Thus the supers aie entered 

 more readily. .\\\ this I claim for the large entrance 

 and plenty of room under the bottom-bars of brood- 

 frames." 



