AUGUST 15. 1916 



exhaust port of the 

 pump. Even with the 

 34-inch pump the ex- 

 haust port is for a 

 one-inch 'pipe, and a 

 hose large enough to 

 slip over a one-inch 

 pipe is pretty expen- 

 sive — so expensive, in 

 fact, that it seems to 

 me that a galvanized 

 pipe is more practical. 

 The pipe, moreover, 

 will last forever, while 

 the hose, unless very 

 carefully handled, will 

 deteriorate rapidly. 



This year, for the first 

 time, we tried uncap- 

 ping into a wax-pi'ess, 

 intending to press the 

 honey out of the cap- 

 pings when the basket 

 was full, then set that 

 one away to be melted 

 up later, an empty 

 basket meanwhile be- 

 ing put in the press. 



Uncapping into a wax-press. "We 

 cloth on the cappings under the plunger 

 consequently the plunger stuck fast. 



made the mistake of 

 when we applied the 



not laying a 

 pressure, and 



A strong colony with three to five supers is "some colony." It is liad practice to confine the bees merely 

 to the 'brood-chamber when the supers are taken off. Empty combs should be provided at once, and if the 

 supers are freed from bees by means of a bee-escape, a super of empty combs should be placed under the 

 escape unless the honey-flow is entirely over. 



