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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Nov. 1 



[There is no question but our correspon- 

 dent has something valuable in the way of 

 that big tree to work in conjunction with a 

 wax-press. As I have before pointed out, a 

 spring and screw in combination, where they 

 can be applied, is better than a screw alone. 

 Now, it just occurs to me that one or more 

 trees can be found in the average apple- 

 orchard in the North, with low-spreading 

 limbs that can be used to reinforce the jack- 

 screw, as shown in the illustration. Every 

 locality will have some kind of tree that can 

 be used for the purpose. — Ed ] 



A DEVICE FOR HOLDING FRAMES WHILE 

 NAILING. 



BY A. J. WILHITE. 



Common lumber is used throughout the 

 construction of this holder. A is an inch 

 board 171 inches in length. B is the same 

 length. 21 inches wide. Two upright pieces 

 like D are nailed at each end of A; they are 

 2i wide, J thick, but lack IJ inches coming 

 to the top of B, which open space gives 

 you the room for nailing. The holder is 

 loosely bolted to the upright piece C, and 



C is securely nailed to one side of the center 

 of the base-board 7X14 inches, and the 

 base-board at C is loosely bolted through 

 another board 5 feet long, thus making 

 it possible and convenient to have the 

 holder in any position while nailing. At the 

 end of 5 is a guide, stopping the top-bar of 

 the frame in exactly the right place; and 

 with the button at B turned there is no slip- 

 ping of the frame. It makes it possible to 

 adjust a frame in an instant. 



TO USE THE HOLDER. 



Press down the end of the holder with D 

 on until the bottom of B rests against the 

 cleat next to C, and the extreme end of the 

 frame rests against the cleat nailed length- 

 wise of the base-board. In this position 

 nail one end of the bottom-bar of the frame. 



then tip this end of the holder up until the 

 reverse end of the holder and the frame rest 

 as the previous end did. Nail the upright 

 piece to one end of the top-bar of the frame. 

 Turn the other end of the holder to you, and 

 finish nailing the bottom-bar of the frame; 

 then tip down the end of the holder that is 

 up, and complete the nailing. 

 Kirksville, Mo. 



[It is our experience that no arrangement 

 is needed to hold the frames square while 

 they are being nailed; for, when the pieces 

 are cut square and true, the nails will draw 

 the corners up perfectly square, so that it 

 would be practically impossible to get them 

 wrong. We find that we can nail the frames 

 faster without making use of so complicat- 

 ed a holder. 



But not every one can nail up hives and 

 frames without a form. Perhaps the one 

 shown by our correspondent is as good as 

 any thing that has been placed before our 

 readers. But all factory-made frames now 

 when put together will hold their position 

 very satisfactorily for nailing, without any 

 thing to hold them in place ; but where 

 frames are made at a planing-mill, without 

 any lock- cornering, a form would be almost 

 a necessity. —Ed.] 



MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT 

 RECTED. 



CUBA COR- 



Two Cuban Writers at Loggerheads with Each 

 Other. 



BY C, F. HOCHSTEIN. 



What funny things we read in Glean- 

 ings! It ought to have a "contradiction 

 department," with me its chief editor at a 

 good salary. I will guarantee to contradict 

 any thing and every thing under the sun. 

 On page 652 our friend Leslie Burr puts the 

 pamero?a as the greatest honey-plant in 

 Cuba. I have solid miles of it, commencing 

 within a stone's throw of my apiary. I've 

 made three crops in this location, and I have 

 yet to see the first pound of pamerosa honey 

 in my hives. Although I have watched 

 them, yet I hardly ever have seen a bee on 

 its bloom. As to the algaroba, of which I 

 have plenty around me, I never did see a 

 bee go near it. 



Any one reading friend Burr's article on 

 page 714 would think that we bee-keepers 

 here in Cuba had nothing more to do than to 

 take off honey from Nov. 1st to the end of 

 February, then go to slashing out the wax 

 from March 1st to the end of October. We 

 have some other things to do. Sitting on 

 the front porch clipping off the interest- 

 bearing coupons from our government bonds 

 as fast as they become due keeps us busy a 

 good deal of the time, and is just as easy as 

 slashing out that wax. 



I cut out all the chunks of drone comb I 

 had in my upper stories the first part of 

 April. Now we have nearly the end of 



