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GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



Oct. 15 



own experience to go by — at 

 that time I wrote tnat a bot- 

 tom starter should be not less 

 than an inch in depth. Fur- 

 ther experience showed me 

 that so deep a starter would 

 too often lop over, and now 

 for years I have used noth- 

 ing more than f of an inch; 

 so when you use such a very 

 great depth of bottom starter 

 as li inch, you may be very 

 sure it will not maintain an 

 upright position. 



The size and shape of the 

 upper starter has something 

 to do in the case. Your top 

 starter is a "triangle com- 

 ing down half way." That 

 leaves at least | of an inch 

 between the upper and lower 

 starter — a space so large that 

 the bees will not recognize 

 that there is any particular 

 relation between the two; or 

 if the bees should attempt to 

 build the two together there 

 is abundance of time for the 

 lower starter to topple over 

 before the upper can be built 

 down to it. But if the space 

 between the two starters is not more than J 

 inch, the bees seem to understand that their 

 first work is to cement the two together, 

 and they are not slow about doing it. 



Even with only J inch between the two 

 starters, if the upper starter is triangular the 

 two can be built together only at a single 

 point at first, and before the outer parts of 

 the lower starter can be fastened to the up- 

 per they may be somewhat demoralized. 



The weight of the foundation makes a dif- 

 ference. The thinner the foundation the less 

 firmly it will stand up. I use "thin super," 

 there being other reasons why "extra thin 

 super" is not so satisfactory. 



Understanding these requirements in the 



THE LID OPENED WITH THE TREADLE. 



case you will probably have no trouble if 

 you act in accordance therewith. Cut square 

 starters of thin super foundation, of such size 

 that the combined depth before they are fas- 

 tened in the section shall be ^ inch less than 

 the inside depth of the section. If you fasten 

 yovir starters with a hot-plate machine, it 

 is likely to melt away a little of the starters, 

 and the space between may be anywhere 

 from I to i inch. 



LOSSING'S COMB CARRYING BOX. 



WM. 



LOSSING S AUTOMATIC ARRANGEMENT FOR CLOSING THE COMB- 

 CARRYING^BOX ON A WHEELBARROW, 



BY WILLIAM LOSSING. 



The accompanying engravings show my 

 newest style of the 

 detachable auto- 

 matic cover, mount- 

 ed on a Daisy wheel- 

 barrow, as describ- 

 ed in Gleanings 

 for Oct. 1st, 1906. 

 The device is used 

 for quickly closing 

 the lid over a comb- 

 carrying box on a 

 wheelbarrow, so as 

 to prevent robbers 

 from getting at the 

 honey. The small 

 box shown is a cage 

 for catching and 

 confining the rob- 

 bers. 



This is the third 

 one I have made, 

 and it quite fills the 

 bill. A few days 

 ago I extracted all 



