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CLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



June 1 



Sunday-school, has a very much better 

 chance in life than the other one who thinks 

 it is "smart" to be "out with the boys 

 nights" and "have a good time." He is 

 pretty apt to keep on being out all his life 

 when he gets started to doing so. They 

 say it does 'em no harm, and if it does they 

 can quit. Few there are who begin sowing 

 " wild oats " quit, sober down, and make 

 men that are an honor to community. — Ed.] 



FENCES OR SEPARATORS WITH TRANSVERSE 

 OPENINGS. 



Mr. J. T. Calvert: — In April 15th Glean- 

 ings 1 note that you advertise the Hyde- 

 Scholl separator or fence as you are pleased 

 to call it. In the summer of 1898 Mr. Scholl 

 and myself experimented with a great many 

 forms of separators, with the result that we 

 brought out the separator with both longitu- 

 dinal and transverse slots as has been il- 

 lustrated. For the old-style A}i section the 

 problem was easy, and satisfactorily ac- 

 complished with our No. 1 separator, and 

 open four-side sections. For the Ideal sec- 

 tion we added wood spacers, which proved 

 unsatisfactory, and we then tried and suc- 

 cessfully used tin spacers. For various 

 reasons I recognized that the 4X5 section 

 was in the lead, and I last year went about 

 to adapt our separator to the 4X5 section. 

 I was working on the problem when Mr. 

 Calvert paid me his visit. I showed him 

 my plans, and he suggested other slight 

 changes, the principal one being the use of 

 tin on the upright slots. As the separator 

 stands, it is well adapted to the Danz. su- 

 per arrangemcL t, and it can be easily adapt- 

 ed to other arrangements of the 4X5-section 

 super. When we have further improved 

 and done away with the wood cleats at the 

 ends, and arranged for passageway for end 

 sections, as well as middle, we shall have 

 ' it right. We are figuring on a modification 

 of the Danz super that will accommodate 

 this idea. As the separator stands, it is by 

 far the best separator or fence on the mar- 

 ket. 



The superiority of the separator rests 

 mainly in the upright slots and the manner 

 of spacing. By this arrangement we do 

 away with the wood-cleat spacers, which 

 invariably cause the sections to be rounded 

 off on the edges as well as promoting pop- 

 holes. With this separator honey is finish- 

 ed cf¥ clear up to the wood, and there are 

 few if any detestable pop holes. It is need- 

 less to say that the arrangement also pro- 

 motes freer communication and better super 

 work generally. 



Mr. Calvert is wrong in calling this a 

 fence, for it is not a fence in any particular. 

 It is a separator, pure and simple, and as 

 such it should be called a separator, re- 

 gardless ot whose name you attach to it. 



From reports it would seem that Mr. 

 Scholl and myself are not the original in- 

 ventors of this principle applied in the sep- 

 arators; however, certain it is that we were 

 not aware of such previous invention. Such, 

 if an}', had not been heralded before the 

 bee- keeping world. We are the first to 

 make known to the bee-keeping world gen- 

 erally the principles applied in our separa- 

 tor, and as such we demand full and fair 

 credit for the same. 



It is a foregone conclusion that our princi- 

 ples will be applied to all separators in the 

 future, and as such we demand that such 

 separators be known as the Hyce Scholl. 



This separator, and the honey produced 

 with the same, will be on exhibition at St. 

 Louis, and we hope that as many bee-keep- 

 ers as possible will examine and criticise 

 the same. We believe it is a good thing, 

 and are anxiovis for the bee-keepers to have 

 the invention for what it is worth. 



Floresville, Tex. Homer H. Hyde. 



[It is no doubt true that you were not 

 aware of any previous invention antedating 

 the Hyde-SchoU separator; but when you 

 say that you were the " first to make known 

 to the bee-keeping world generally the 

 principles applied in our separator" you 

 are not quite CDrrect. In the Bee-keepers' 

 Review for December, 1897, a separator is 

 shown and described by L. A. Aspinwall, 

 of Jackson, Michigan, which embodies all 

 the principles in your separator save one — 

 that of using horizontal slots. This arti- 

 cle of Mr. Aspinwall's was the result of 

 mature thought that had been worked out 

 some time before — how many years or 

 months 1 do not know; but do know that 

 he had used the plain section seme eight or 

 nine years before any general mention of 

 them was made in the bee papers; and the 

 probabilities are that he had used his sep- 

 arator for nearly that length of time. The 

 Aspinwall device has the transverse per- 

 pendicular openings opposite the uprights of 

 the sections on each side, cleats, or projec 

 tions on the separator, and the openings at 

 the ends of the super exactly the sama as in 

 the Hyde- Scholl fence. In this article he 

 goes OD to give his reasons for such open- 

 ings very fully. Your article di scribing 

 the Hyde-SchoU fence did not appear until 

 just about a year afterward, and that was 

 in the December 15th Gleanings, 1898. 

 Along about the same time, Mr. J. K. 

 Crane, of Middlebury, Vt., was working on 

 the same proolem, and on December 24, 

 1898, filed an application for a patent cov- 

 ering the raised pi ejections on different 

 planes in a separator or fence. The patent 

 was finally allowed. May 2, 1899. It is 

 very broad, and covers the Hyde Scholl 

 fence, using metal projections, completely. 

 We have, therefore, made arrangements to 



