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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



May 15 



bing- at all. By managing the business 

 this way my bees remain very quiet, and 

 are never troublesome. 



Wood burn, On'., March 12. 



[I vrish this little item of our friend Mc- 

 Evoy could be pasted in the hat of every be- 

 g'inner bee-keeper. Indeed, I am not sure 

 but I will have it struck off and inclosed 

 with every dozen escapes sent out; and, say 

 ■ — I have been in bee-yards of old veterans 

 who either did not seem to know about the 



duley's safety device in use ready for emergency 



trick of keeping bees quiet with 

 escapes, or if they did know it 

 they were so careless as to go 

 ahead and extract just to save 

 time and "do the job up all at 

 once." I grant that sometimes 

 at an outyard one can not wait 

 to put on escapes: and it be- 

 comes necessary, therefore, to 

 shake and brush. Even then 

 the extracting- house should be 

 bee-proof, with bee-escapes on it 

 to let stray bees that come in on 

 the combs get out but not in. I 

 do not believe it is wise for even 

 the veterans to let the bees get 

 on a rampage. There are many 

 people nowadays who are anxious to begin 

 a damage suit, and there are plenty of 

 lawyers out of a job who would like to be 

 retained. The old adage, "An ounce of 

 prevention is better than a pound of cure," 

 tits this case exactly. — Ed.] 



remove the doubletrees, and in place there- 

 of fasten a clip made of 2>^ X '4 -inch iron in 

 the manner shown, with two half-inch bolts. 

 Now take the other clip with doubletrees 

 and slip into the first clip, and fasten the 

 same with the lever dog. Leave off stay- 

 chains. The driver sits with his foot on 

 the lever. Should there be any danger he 

 presses down on the lever and lets the team 

 loose from the wagon, and moves away out 

 of danger. 



I would never think of hitching a valuable 

 team to a load of bees without 

 this device to let them loose. 

 There is no time to unhitch 

 traces when bees get on a 

 team. 



The driver sits with his foot 

 on the lever, and holds the 

 doubletree rope. Should there 

 be any danger, press the lev- 

 er and release the team from 

 the wagon, and drive out of 

 the way. He holds the double- 

 tree off from the horses' heels 

 by ineans of a rope. We don't 

 have to stop the team at all — 

 don't have any traces to un- 

 hitch; in fact, there is no time 

 for such work. All we have 

 to do is to press the lever. The 

 wagon will sometimes run sev- 

 eral feet after the tongue falls 

 to the ground. I have no more 

 fear in hauling a load of bees 

 with this little device than I 



duley's safety device for releasing team when 

 hauling bees. 



DULEY'S HANDY SAFETY DEVICE FOR MOVING 

 BEES. 



A Good Suggestion. 



BY G. W. DULEY, 



I have a device which I use in hauling 

 bees, of which I send a drawing and de- 

 scription. Take a wagon with breast-yoke; 



do a load of corn. I just load the bees on 

 the wagon in any way, and start over these 

 rough roads of Livingston Co. My! You 

 would think the bottom-boards would all be 

 shaken loose. But what do I care? I can 

 get out of the way, just the same. 

 Smithland, Ky., Feb. 12. 



[The drawings are sufficiently c ear so 

 that any one can taVe them to his black- 

 smith-shop and have an outfit made at com- 

 paratively little expense. But instead of 

 having a long- slot cut through the floor of 

 the wagon, mutilating it, I would have an 

 upright standard with a pedal piece mount- 

 ed on top, the standard passing- through a 

 ^-inch hole in the wagon- box at the right 

 point to pivot on the end of the lever. This 



