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(ILEANINCiS INT BKP] CULTURE. 



Sept 1 



in front of the hives; so after that I used the 

 fist plan for shaking bees into the hive and 

 also for shaking bees off light combs on to 

 the ground, using the Doolittle plan with 

 heavy frames when shaking bees on to the 

 ground. 



One day with a frame that had little more 

 than foundation in it I struck the end of the 

 top-bar on the ground, as I had no fear of 

 breaking out such a light comb, and was sur- 

 prised to see what clean work it made at tak- 

 ing off the bees. Gradually I tried it with a 

 little heavier and a little heavier combs until 

 I found that, by rightly handling the frames, 

 I could thus shake bees off any combs, light 

 or heavy. So, nowadays, I use the fist plan 

 for shaking bees into the hive, and what Ed- 

 itor Root has been pleased to dub the pendu- 

 lum plan for shaking off bees on the ground 

 at the hive-entrance. 



When striking a very light frame on the 

 ground, there's no pendulum business about 

 it. But if you take a heavy one, raise it, 

 and with a straight-down motion let it strike 

 the ground, it will severely rack the comb, 

 if, indeed, it does not throw the end- bars out 

 of being perpendicular to the top-bars. But 

 if the force comes directly against the top- 

 bar, or even in a diagonal direction, the 

 comb will easily stand the shock. 



Soyou will first swing the frame back till 

 it is in the position shown in Fig. 2, and then 

 swing it in the other direction till it is as 

 shown in Fig. 3; then as it swings back 

 again let the end of the top-bar strike the 



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ground as at Fig. 4. You will see in Fig. 4 

 that the diagonally opposite corner is nearly 

 vertically above the corner that strikes the 

 ground. If the frame came straight down 

 in that way it would stand quite a shock. 

 But the pendulum motion— the swing back — 

 makes it somewhat as if the frame struck the 

 ground directly on the top- bar, which fact 

 you will see illustrated by the position of the 

 bees on the ground. Compare the ground 

 in Fig. 4 with that in the other numbers, and 

 see where the bees are in Fig. 4. If they fell 

 from the comb vertically, the bulk of the 

 bees would be right where the end of the top- 

 bar rests on the ground. But you will note 

 that they are back of that, thrown there by 

 the backward motion of the comb. 



In a Straw I said I had never injured a 

 comb by the pendulum plan. Within per- 

 haps two days after that I cracked two combs. 

 They were freshly built combs, and very 

 heavy with honey. So with such combs one 

 must not strike the ground too hard. Bet- 

 ter, perhaps, use the Doolittle plan or the 

 brush. 



ONTARIO FOUL BROOD INSPECTORS. 



BY K. F. HOLTERMANN. 



FIG. o. — 3tCONL> FuoiHUi.>. 



The engravings show various foul-brood 

 inspectors for Ontario, mentioned on page 

 889 of the July 1st issue. All of them have 

 been more or less before the bee-keeping 



