1804 



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Oct. ir, 



at the New York 

 State fair. Tliis he 

 attril)uted hirgelyto 

 the Betsinger sepa- 

 rator. 



Accordingly we 

 maile up a set of 

 supers and sent 

 them down to our 

 neigh])()r Mr. Ver- 

 non Burt. These he 

 tested out this hist 

 season, and the re- 

 sults were far from 

 satisfactory. H i s 

 bees seemed to 

 amuse themselves 

 by sticking patches 

 of burr-comb on the 

 wire (^loth, and 

 building from that 

 to the section in a 

 most fantastic fash- 

 ion. He asked me 

 to come down and 

 look over the hon- 

 ey and let the lot 

 speak for itself. 



Accordingly, with 

 camera 1 appeared 

 on the scene. We 

 opened two supers, 

 when, sure enough, 

 the wire-cloth sepa- 

 rators were pretty 

 well patched up with 

 comli. The accom- 

 panying photograph 

 shows how some of 

 them looked. Then 

 Mr. Burt held up 

 one of the supers 

 that had not yet 



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Iktsinuei- wire-cloth separators as the.v appeared after beint. 

 from a super from the apiary of Vernon Burt. 



been opened, in front of me, in such a way , jll" Then we took some of the sections and 

 that the light could stream through it. , i piled them up, one on top of the other. A 

 Plainly enough I could see the patches of i j feAv of them are shown in Fig. 3, where the 

 wax connecting the nice comb honey with Imrrs of wax were torn loose, 

 the wire (^loth all through the super — see Mr. Burt's bees did not fill out the combs 



Fig. 2. any l)etter than they had done next to plain 



Fig'. 2. — A peep through a super liaviny wire-cloth separators, showing how the brace-combs were attached to 



separators and comb faces. 



