1907 



GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. 



1337 



between walls, I got 15 lbs. for good old 

 auntie to enjoy. 



The past summer I was called to a brick 

 house where a colony had been for a num- 

 ber of years. The joists between the tioors 

 extended to support a porch. Mortar had 

 loosened around the sides of them, and al- 

 lowed an entrance. Either a castoff of their 

 own or some other took up quarters under 

 the same porch (which happened to be the 

 one principally used by the family); then 

 the ti-ouble begun. There was no way to 

 make an entry but through a brick wall or 

 tear up hard-woi.d door. I saw no way but 

 to close all entries and leave them to their 

 fate. I aui sorry to say that, in all these 

 cas-^s, it meant the destruction of the bees, as 

 the season of the year or conditions were 

 such that it was next to impossible to save 

 them. As to charges for my work, I count 

 time from leaving home till I retui'n at 30 



bees, and a queen, the bees that can not get 

 back into their old quarters will unite with 

 the bees in the hive. In the course of three 

 or four weeks nearly all of the bees will be 

 out of the building, at the end of which time 

 the bee-escape is removed, when the honey 

 will be robbed out and placed in the hive. 

 This may then be removed. There is thus 

 no mutilation of the building. — Ed.] 



A TURNTABLE FOR PASSING FRAMES 

 IN AND OUT OF A HONEY-HOUSE. 



BY E. P. ST. JOHN. 



I inclose a sketch of a device for putting 

 supers in my honey-house. 



The man in the apiary can wheel his su- 

 pers up to the building and set them on the 

 turntable, and, after giving it half a turn, 



TURNTABLE FOR PASSING SUPERS IN AND OUT OF A HONET-HOUSE. 



A, A, board to close space below table; B, board to close space above table ; C, F, turntable arms and 

 wedges; G, shaft; J, brace below table; E, turntable with its hinged frame pushed in to enable outer door to 

 close. 



the supers will be inside. When the opera- 

 tor inside has his frames extracted and re- 

 placed (he might give a tap on a bell), the 

 man outside wheels up another load, setting 

 them on as before; give another half -turn, 

 honey is inside, empty supers outside. 



Alpine, Cal. E. P. St. John. 



[While this plan would undoubtedly be 

 successful, yet it would seem like a pretty 



cts. an hour, parties to furnish conveyance 

 unless it is where I can use my wheel con- 

 veniently. 



Philo, 111. 



[You do not say any thing about the use 

 of a bee-escape over the entrance into the 

 cavity in the building so as to trap the bees 

 out, and into a hive with its entrance close 

 by. If this hive contains a frame of brood. 



