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GLEANINGS IN HEE CULlUKh. 



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paj- Mr. Crane royalty for all fences made. 

 We have adopted the name H3de-Scholl. 

 because such construction of fence was 

 known better to our trade than the Aspin- 

 wall; but in reality the separator is more 

 an Aspinwall than a Hyde-Scholl; in fact, 

 it might ver}' properly be called after Mr. 

 Aspinwall. 



Regarding the name "fence" and "sep- 

 arator, " there are trade reasons why all 

 the division appliances between plain sec- 

 tions should be called fences, and those be- 

 tween beeway sections should be called sep- 

 arators. In our opinion, the Hyde-Scholl 

 fence is just as much a fence, if not more a 

 fence, than a separator. It is made up of 

 a series of slats, and resembles very much 

 fences that are used to inclose lots and farm 

 lands. It would be very confusing to the 

 trade to speak of this appliance as a sepa- 

 rator, as the bee-keeping world has come to 

 associate a separator with something that 

 is used between the old-style sections; and 

 we could not consent in our catalog matter 

 to change the name, as it would lead to no 

 end of confusion among our dealers and 

 customers. 



The question of priority in inventions is 

 a pretty complicated one, and it very often 

 happens that the real inventor of an idea, 

 or the one who contributes the most to a 

 perfected appliance, does not have his name 

 attached to it, simply because trade reasons 

 require the use of the old name to avoid 

 confusion. If we give full credit on this 

 new separator we should attach also the 

 names of Mr. J. E. Crane and Mr. L. A. 

 Aspinwall; thus, Aspinwall-Crane-Hyde- 

 SchoU fence. Such a name would be a 

 long-tailed abomination, to say nothing 

 about the trouble in referring to it and bill- 

 ing it on invoices. But you and Mr. Scholl 

 deserve credit for hanging to this idea and 

 cDntinuing to use it, thus bringing it before 

 the bee-keeping world when it might other- 

 wise have been dropped and forgotten. 

 Your persistent advocacy of the principles 

 entitles you properly to the use of the name 

 Hyde-Scholl, as applied to this particular 

 form of separator, lor ycu were the iritro- 

 ducers, if not the original inventors, of the 

 main principles of it. — Ed.] 



STAYING UP FOUNDATION WITH WOOD 

 SPLINTS. 



Dr. Miller: — 1. Excuse me if I ask you a 

 few questions. Would you please explain 

 to me how you use your splints in fastening 

 foundation? Perhaps you might tell me to 

 get your Forty Years Among the Bees. 

 Well, I surely will later on. 



2. I also have some shallow frames with 

 a saw-kerf, but I really don't Inow how to 

 fasten the foundation in them. 



3. Where did you purchase your splints? 

 Melz. Wis. Fred Strohschein. 

 [Dr. Miller replies:] 



1. I quote from Forty Years Among the 

 Bees, page 87: The foundation is cut so as 

 to make a close fit in length, and the width 



is about half an inch more than the inside 

 depth of the frame. The frame is all 

 complete except that one of the two pieces 

 of the bottom-bar is cot yet nailed on. 

 The frame is laid on a board of the usu- 

 al kind, whici fits inside the frame, atd 

 has stops on the edges so that, when foun- 

 dation is laid on the board, it will lie cen- 

 trally in the frame. The half of the bot- 

 tom-bf ard that is nailed on lies on the un 

 der side. The foundation is put in place, 

 and one edge is crowded into the saw kerf 

 in the top bar. Then the lacking half of the 

 bottom-bar is put in place, and a light nail 

 at the middle is driven down through both 

 parts. Then the frame is raised, and the 

 ends of the two halves of the bottom-bar are 

 squeezed together so as to pinch the founda- 

 tion, and nailed there. Then the usual 

 wedge is wedged into the fine saw-kerf in 

 the top-bar. 



Now we are ready for the important part. 

 Little sticks or splints, about j^ inch 

 square, and about % inch shorter than the 

 inside depth of the frame, are thrown into 

 a square shallow tin pan that contains hot 

 beeswax. They will froth up because of 

 the moisture frying out of them. When the 

 frothing ceases, and the splints are saturat- 

 ed with wax, then they are ready for use. 

 The frame of foundation is ; aid on the 

 board as before. W^ith a pair of pliers a 

 splint is lifted out of the wax (kept just hot 

 enough over a gasoline- stove), and placed 

 upon the foundation so that the splint shall 

 be perpendicular when the frame is hung 

 in the hive. As fast as a splint is laid in 

 place, an assistant immediately presses it 

 down into the foundation with the wetted 

 edge of aboard. About l'^ inches from 

 each end-bar is placed a splint, and be- 

 tween these two splints three others at equal 

 distances ... A little experience will 

 enable one to judge, when patting in the 

 splints, how hot to keep the wax. If too 

 hot there will be too light a coating of wax. 



2. If there are two saw-kerfs side by side, 

 crowd the foundation into the larger kerf, 

 and then crowd the wedge (that came with 

 the frame- stuff, into the narrower kerf. If 

 there is only one kerf, crowd in the founda- 

 tion, and then drop a few drops of melted 

 wax along the foundation and top-bar, so 

 as to hold it there till the bees fasten it se- 

 curely. Instead of dropping the melted 

 wax, you can crowd a waxed string into 

 the kerf beside the foundation. 



3. From the A. I. Root Co. 



wintering well in danzenbaker hives; 



shutting bees up at spraying time. 



My bees went through the winter well; 

 that is, those in the ten-frame hives. I lost 

 a few hives of eight-frames, but did not 

 lose a single ten-frame colony. This has 

 converted me to the ten-frame Danzenbaker 

 hive. 



What shall I do when it is time to spray 

 apple-trees? W^ould it be advisable to close 

 the entrance of the hives for a day or so un- 



