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GLEANINGS IN BEE CUI.TURE. 



Dec. 15. 



THE DANZENBAKER SECTION-CARTON. 



Mr. Danzenbaker has been turning his at- 

 tention of late toward a cheaper carton than 

 has hitherto been sold on the market. The 

 one that he has devised is shown in the ac- 

 companying sketch. It perfectly protects 

 the two faces of honey, and the top and bot- 



tom, but does not cover the ends of the sec- 

 tions. The section is slipped into the carton 

 endwise; the flap D is folded over the open- 

 ing, and that gives a view of the honey. Then 

 a rubber band is slipped around the package. 

 For the purpose of showing the honey the flap 

 D may be lifted up, and the honey is shown 

 from the opening as at C. 



Just how far this carton may prove to be 

 cheaper than the regular styles on the market 

 I can not saj'; neither do I know whether the 

 opening at C, with the cover-flap D, will prove 

 to be of special merit. All these things will 

 have to be laid before the unprejudiced bar of 

 the consumer. 



FASTENING FOUND.\TION IN TOP BARS ; THE 

 SLOTS AND WEDGE METHOD. 



For a number of years we have made our 

 thick top-bars with a molded bead, the same 

 as is illustrated on page 817. This molded 

 edge forms an excellent comb-guide to the 

 bees when no foundation is used, as well as an 

 edge to which foundation can be astened by 

 means of the D isy foundation-roller. While 

 the majority of our customers have succeeded 

 in fastening the sheets to this edge by the roll- 

 er method, some few seem to he unable to ac- 

 quire the knack; and as there has sprung up 

 within a year or so a demand for the saw-kerf 

 and the wedge method, we have decided to 

 make this feature, for 18U8, an option, without 

 additional cost, on brood-frames, whether of 

 thick-top or of the Hoffman. The method 



that we have adopted we regard as an improve- 

 ment over somt- that have been put on the 

 market, and is no hing more nor less than an 

 old method used by the English bee-keepers 

 for years, and for whom we have made thou- 

 sands and thousands of frames embodying the 

 feature. 



The accompanying engraving shows just 

 the idea. There are double saw-cuts % inch 

 deep % inch wide, running exactly parallel, 

 and separated by a film of wood about ^^ inch 

 thick. One of the saw-cuts (the one to re- 

 ceive the foundation ) is exactly in the center 

 of the top-bar. The method of fastening is 

 to slip the sheet, as at D, see engraving, into 

 the saw cut. The long wedge-shaped strip of 

 wood, E, is then driven down into the other 

 saw-cut, wedging the aforesaid dividing-film 

 of wood tightly against the foundation, there- 

 by making it fast. The engraving will make 

 the thing perfectly plain. ' ' "" ^ 



The only objeciion I can see to this method 

 — and it may prove to be quite a serious one 

 in the future — is that foundation will probably 

 be tnade with deeper side-walls than ai pres- 

 ent. It may not be practicable to make the 

 saw-cut fit the variety of thicknesses of the 

 diflFerent foundations on the market. The saw- 

 cuts as we make them at present are adapted 

 to the use of sheets of ordinary medium or 

 light brood foundation. 



FENCE FOR OLD STYLE SECTION-HOLDERS. 



Some of our subscribers have not understood 

 how the plain section and fence could be used 

 in the old-style section holders, especially 

 when the plain sections are \% inches and the 



old sections were 1 % . By consulting the ac- 

 companying drawing, I think the idea will be 

 made plain. A E H D shows the plain sec- 

 tion in the old section-holder. The width of 

 the sections is exactly the width of the inset 



