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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



April, 1917 



Details of Mrs. Frey's hive. The tupeis are enclosed in a large cap, Fig. 1, which with the deep 

 gable cover Fig. 3 is large enough to hold three 45-section supers. To make the large cap fit the smaller 

 brood-chamber below, a fack, Fig. 4, is put on first. Fig. 2 shows the original Langstroth hive used years 

 ago. 



cai-eful to build the colonies up to uniform 

 strengib at tbe beginning- of tbe season it is 

 notbing to g'o tbru a yard and find tbe work 

 progressing in all tbe supers so nearly alike 

 tbat no one can tell wbicli colony is likely to 

 be in the lead at tbe end of the season. We 

 often take three of these large supers of 

 comb honey from one colony in any fairly 



good season, and I have never failed to get 

 a good crop of honey. 



Tbe first supers 1 used held only 28 sec- 

 tions. I bad 150 of tliis size, and I used 

 them exclusively for a few years. They 

 seemed to have so many faults, however, 

 that I tried 50 32-section supers with fence 

 separafors. I have used these supers right 



One of Mrs. Frey's hives with the mammoth cap and cover for holding supci'.s. Tlie little girl shown 

 is her four-\ ear-old grandchild, Beatrice Cain. Wlicii slie was tlirte years old she folded sections, p'aced 

 them in supers, and picked papers <jut from between sheets of foundation. She is the " queen of the shop." 



