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CLEANINGS JN 13EE CULTURE 



Feb. 15 



Bee-keeping in the South- 

 west 



By LOUIS SCHOLL, New Braunfels, Texas 



scholl's frame-nailing block. 

 A number of frame-nailing devices have 

 been described; but our own suits us better 

 than any thing else that has come to our 

 observation. It is very simple in construc- 

 tion, made of two pieces of wood as shown, 

 with two pieces of heavy tin or galvanized 

 iron bent to serve as a holder for the frame 

 ends. This block is set in front of the oi> 

 erator, preferably on a l.w work-bench, an 

 end-bar placed in each one of the holders as 



can boys, there was not a single one put to- 

 gether wrong. Yes, we can go further, be- 

 cause, ever since we have adopted this way 

 of holding the frame ends there has been 

 no trouble about getting them in the right 

 ]iosition. And this, together with the han- 

 dy frame-nailing block, makes the nailing- 

 up of the frames very easy indeed. 



NAILING SUPERS RIGHT. 



There has been considerable trouble with 

 the warping of the hive and super ends and 

 sides after they are out in the weather for 

 some time. Es]iecially is this so in our 

 southern and western localities where the 

 weather seems to "have it in " for every 

 thing, and this warping out of shape of the 



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Fig. 1. — Scholl's frame-nailing form. 



shown, and the top-bar nailed on from the 

 top. Then the whole is removed, turned 

 upside down, and set on the work-bench in 

 front of the block so that the frame rests on 

 the length of the top-bar, and then the bot- 

 tom-bar is naileJ on, completing the job. 



To assist in nailing the frames always 

 with the V-edge of the end-bars in the right 

 way we practice taking up the first end-bar 

 to be placed in the nading-block with the 

 right hand, and in such a way that the V 

 edge will fit into the V 

 made by the fore fin- 

 per, as shown in Fig. 

 2. If this is always 

 done first, and then 

 the other end -bar 

 l)'aced in position at 

 the other end, with the 

 V edge exactly in the 

 opposite direction, all 

 the frames will be as- 

 sembled correctly, and 

 the nuisance of having 

 the V edges point in all 

 directions (as seen in 

 many apiaries)' is pre- 

 vented. Last year, out of over 7000 sui'h 

 frames, nailed up by two very young Mexi- 



hive parts is serious in that the leaky hives 

 caused thereby make robbing easy. Some 

 of the newer goods are made so that there 

 is not so much trouble as with the older way 

 of making the hives and supers; but since 

 many are still so made, and thousands of 

 old ones are in use that need repairing at 

 some time or other, we have struck on the 

 idea as illustrated in the two engravings 

 here shown. We have gone over hundreds 

 of supers and hive-bodies and renailed them 

 in the proper way, and thus obviated many 

 of the leaks. 



We term this the proper way. As seen 

 in figure 3, A and C shows part of a wrong- 



Fig. 2. How to picli up 

 an end-bar. 



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Fig. 3. Wrong and right way of nailing a super. 



ly nailed super. This is the most common 

 way in which the supers are nailed — two 

 nails driven in the two dovetailed ends of 

 the sides of the super. This allows the 



