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Gloanings in Bee Culture 



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 3t:^A'rroMOB!Li 



Fig. 2. — SfliolTs apiary-wagon for hauling bees. 



by the (li8ai)i)e;irauce of the ines(|uite, ex- 

 cept in ])hvees where cotton does not do well. 



SIX THOUSAND IDEAL SUPERS. 



In answer to the question asked by a 

 number of bee-keepers as to whether I ani 

 still as stanch a friend of the shallow supers, 

 both as supers and brood-cluinibers as well, 

 as advocated by me years ajjo, I wish to say 

 that the longer we use them the better we 

 like them. And to olTer proof of my state- 

 ments I can do no better 

 than to mention to what ex- 

 tent we use them. 



It was in 1897 that we or- 

 dered 20 ideal ten-frame su- 

 l)ers with shallow 5>i-inch- 

 deep HolTman frames, to be 

 tried as divisible-brood-cham- 

 ber hives side by side with 

 the regular eight and ten 

 frame Langstroth size, al- 

 ready in use. It was our in- 

 tention to test thoroughly, 

 and, if not satisfactory for 

 divisible brood-chambers, 

 they were to be used as sui)ers 

 over our regular ten-frame 

 hives, and therefore would 

 not be any loss or expense. 

 The results were that .they 

 did not have to be changed 

 to supers on account of being 

 unfit for the purposes for 

 which we tried them, and our 

 success with them was so 

 satisfactory, and the advan- 

 tages of the divisible hives 

 were so great, that we have 

 been procuring nothing else 

 for our constant yearly in- 

 crease during the last fifteen 

 years. Our last purchase 

 consisted of a carload of 8000 

 such supers, together with 

 nearly 1000 ])ounds of foun- 



dation made especially for the shallow 

 frames we are using. All these sujjers are 

 ordered in the Hat as usual, and then nail- 

 ed ui) here. The above lot, after being i)ut 

 u\), was enough to fill nearly three average 

 railroad cars. To ship loOO of the su]iers to 

 our apiaries, nearly 200 miles away, it was 

 necessary to procure one of the largest fur- 

 niture-cars, more than S feet wide and 8 in 

 lieight, and 50 feet long inside. Fig. 2 gives 



S. D. House's '"moth-torch." 



