GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 

 ISTICK 

 SAWbli/ST /'' 



F\g. 1. 



<y^f"r':^'"' "Z!""; ' .:\ '' ;: ' :: ' : ' :'::^ ':'''^^ 



F,g.4. 



A new and simpler way of making chaff division boards. See editorial. 



super toward the handles of the wheelbar- 

 row, leaving' the forward part empty so that 

 the full combs of honey can be placed there, 

 making one movement from the hive with 

 the frame of honey and taking an empty 

 frame on the return motion to the hive. 

 When the bottom super is filled, replace the 

 super that has been removed and fill it. 

 The next move is to take the toi^ super from 

 the second tier .ind place it on top of the 

 front tiei", and fill the bottom of the second 

 tier; and here is where the two inches that 

 extend above the second super come into 

 play, as this brace keeps the super from 

 sliding off over the front of the wheelbar- 

 row when it is moved from colony to colony. 



ARRANGEMENT OF THE INTERIOR OF THE 

 HONEY-HOUSE. 



In the arrangement of the honey-house 

 there are several points to be observed, the 

 first being to have combs moved continually 

 in one direction, or, better, in a circle, pref- 

 erably to the right. When the supers are 

 unloaded from the wheelbarrow they should 

 be stacked so that the man who is uncap- 

 ping stands just to the right with his un- 

 capping-tank directly in front of him. The 

 apparatus for containing uncapped combs 

 should be just to the right of his uneap- 

 ping-tank, and the extractor to the right of 

 the uncapped combs. The extracted combs 

 on being removed from the extractor should 

 again be placed to the right, and in this 



way every thing works smoothly, nothing is 

 mixed, and there is no lost motion. 



Another matter is the uncapping-tank. 

 Where there are several hundred colonies in 

 an apiary it is advisable to build a big 

 permanent uncapping-tank; but where the 

 apiai'y consists of a hundred colonies or 

 less, such is not i\ecessary. The best tem- 

 porary uncapping arrangement that I know 

 of is made of three ordinary supers. On 

 one of the supers nail a one-piece cover and 

 then run a little melted wax in the cracks 

 so that it will not leak. On the next super 

 fasten a piece of ordinary wire window- 

 screen and place this on top of the first 

 super, the first super acting as a tank to 

 hold the honey which drains from the cap- 

 pings; then place the third super on top of 

 the second one, thus making it a convenient 

 height for the average person to work over. 

 On this third super should be placed a %- 

 inch board about four inches wide, cut so 

 that it will rest sound on the rabbets. Two 

 cross-pieces should be nailed to this, that 

 just fit across the super, thus making a solid 

 place on which to stand the combs while 

 uncapping them. This apparatus can be 

 constructed in twenty minutes by a man 

 who is handy with tools and makes an 

 adequate uncapping-outfit; and at the com- 

 ])k'lion of llie extracting it takes only a fe\^ 

 iiiuuii'iits (u make the supers again i-eady 

 to be used for their original purpose. 



