March i. i9i6 



ROPE. 



Block 



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Guide Posrt 

 2'v 4" 



Upright 

 Tongue. 



Fre/ght Elevator. 



iV£ICHT ABOUT 273 LBS. 



/2" Platform 



I have found (and other beekeepers have 

 remarked on it in Gleanings) that it is a 

 mistake to allow bees unavoidably carried 

 into the bee-house, or that have entered by 

 the door, to return at once to their hives. 

 One such bee returning full of stolen honey 

 to its hive when no honey flow is on will 

 set the whole apiary in an uproar; thou- 

 sands of bees will be buzzing around the 

 windows and door, trying to get into each 

 other's hives, so that robbing may be start- 

 ed. It is, therefore, a better plan to retain 

 all such bees in the house, where they will 

 cluster on the windows, and some expedi- 

 tious method is required of turning them 

 out in the evening. 



Mr. Isaac Hopkins' suggestion foi' the 

 honey-house window is a good one — viz., 

 that the window shall be hung centrally, so 

 that with half a turn it can be reversed. 

 Bees usually collect and cluster in one of 

 the top corners. One turn, and the whole 

 lot are outside; and, even supposing any 

 are trying to get in, there is very little 



chance of their doing so when the operation 

 can be cariied out so quickly. The disad- 

 vantage of this window is that it must be 

 kept closed, as wire cloth cannot be tixcd 

 outside. 



Some beekeepers, I believe, advocate 

 openings for ventilation covered with wire 

 cloth, quite apart from the windows, to 

 admit light. If, then, a few bees collect 

 inside, the window can be opened momen- 

 tarily to let them out without danger from 

 stray bees outside getting in, which bees 

 will be busy around the ventilation open- 

 ings. But this means more expense and 

 complication in the building itself. 



I have devised a window which I think 

 fits the bill exactly, altho I have not yet 

 had the opportunity of testing it. The 



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Artist Murray's suggestion of letting the elevator 

 in A. N. Clark's honey-house run down into the 

 bee-cellar. 



