1906 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE 



881 



These are also useful afterward, as you will 

 notice, to be used with the" comb- honey at- 

 tachment. 



FIG. 7.-C0MB-H0NEY ATTACHMENT, END VIEW. 



If honey is coming in quite slowly, and 

 they do not need extra room to accommodate 

 the hatching bees, simply stack the brood 

 above the excluder until they do need more 

 room. 



If honey is coming in fast enough so they 

 need room to store, give it by a comb- honey 

 attachment as described later, I have nev- 

 er known colonies thus united, where only a 

 thin partition intervenes, to fight; but it is 

 well to give them a smokirg before and aft- 

 er uniting, and I always do where I unite 

 two entirely strange colonies. 



If laying queens that have been reared in 

 your own yard are given I find no trouble in 

 introducing by simply smoking the colony 

 well, then run her in, smoking them a little 

 for luck. In this way I rarely have a loss, 

 and it saves much time and trouble. 



When the next visit is made, which should 

 be in a week, look these stories over for 

 queen- cells; and if honey has been coming in 

 enough so they need room, give it by giving 

 them a comb-honey attachment. This de- 



FIG. 8. -COMB-HONEY ATTACHMENT, SIDE VIEW. 



vice is well illustrated in Figs. 7, 8, 9, 10, 11. 

 The sides of this are made of four parallel 

 bars 1 in. wide by | thick by 18| long, with 

 cross- pieces fg wide by | thick by 9^ long, 

 and two pieces of galvanized wire cloth three 



or four mesh to the inch, 16| in. long by 2i 

 wide. On one of these side-pieces a strip of 

 heavy tin j\ wide by 10 long binds the ends 

 to catch the four screw-hooks — see Figs. 8, 

 10, 19. 



In removing the honey from attachment 

 all thj.t is necessary is to turn these four 

 screw- hooks with thumb-nail or pair of 

 pliers, when the whole side can be removed, 

 and the ends are loosened so that every 

 thing is perfectly free and easy to be gotten 

 out. See Fig. 10. This hits the propo- 

 lis question a rap that it has never received 

 before by any super. 



The ends are J in. thick by 91 long, the 

 width varying according to the number of 

 sections the attachment holds. These at- 



FIG. 9. -COMB-HONEY ATTACHMENT. 



These both show attachment without the sections, 

 taken so as to show different parts. 



tachments can be made to take anv number 

 of sections as follows: 8, 16, 24, 32, 40, 48, 

 etc These ends are bound by f Xf-in. pieces 

 as shown in Figs. 7 and 20 so that, when 

 placed in the super, § in. or a little wider 

 space intervenes between the central inside 

 end of the super and the central square 

 of attachment end. See Figs 7, 20. My su- 

 pers are also made with a |-in. dead-air 

 space in the ends, as shown in Figs. 4 and 5. 

 This secures the end sections against any 

 outside extremes of either heat or cold. The 

 sections are supported by plain slats i\ in. 

 thick by 17 in. long, and width same as the 

 sections. If or 1^ inches, and another slat of 

 the same dimensions is used above the sec- 



