AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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Queries aiid Replies. 



Weies or Screws for Holding Sections, 



Query 784. — 1. Where a person uses 

 a section case with solid sides and ends, 

 and a slat bottom, is it advisable to have 

 it large enough to have a follower to key 

 up the sections ; if so, which is best to 

 key up with, wedges or set screws ? 

 2. If wedges, how should they be made 

 to have them easily removed ? 3. If set 

 screws, which are best wood or iron 

 taking into cousideration cost and con 

 venience f — Iowa. 



1. Screws. 3. Iron, if properly made 

 with large, wide thread.— R. L. Taylor 



1. I do not like such a section case 

 and have had no experience with wedges 



etc. — G. M, DOOLITTLE. 



1. Use a follower with set screws 

 but the question is not indisputable. 3 

 Wooden screws. — Dabant & Son. 



1. Yes. Wedges are the best. 2. 

 They should fit into a wedge-shaped 

 groove in the follower. — G. L. Tinker. 



1. Yes'; unless everything is very 

 exact, I should prefer set screws and a 

 follower. 3. Wood, boiled in oil. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



1. Yes, by all means. Use wedges. 2. 

 A little experience will determine the 

 proper size. 3. Wood is better every 

 way. — M. Mahin. 



1. I have tried wedges, and like them. 

 2. The wedges I use are really not 

 wedges at all, but straight sticks big 

 enough to crowd in. — C. C. Miller. 



1. No. Do not use any follower. 2. 

 Set screws are very much superior to 

 wedges. 3. Wood are best, because 

 cheaper, and operated faster. — James 

 Heddon. 



1. I prefer wedges. 2. Make the 

 followers wedge-shaped, and the wedges 

 with the same slant. 3. If I were to 

 use screws, I should perfer wood. — A. 

 B. Mason. 



1. I do not use a follower, and have 

 no trouble to remove filled sections from 

 the kind of case to which you refer. If 

 you must use one, use the wedge to key 

 it up.— J. P. H. Brown. 



1. I think it advisable to use a follower, 

 and key up with wedges. Simplicity is 

 a good rule in the apiary. 2. The 



wedges should be thin. 3. I think wood 

 is best, although I have never used iron. 

 — A. J. Cook. 



1. Wedges. 2. With a little projec- 

 tion, so that they could be loosened with 

 a tap from a hammer. 3. Iron, unless 

 made like Heddon's, so that they could 

 be thrown in Lake Michigan and not 

 swell.— Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. I do not consider it necessary. One 

 advantage in keying up is to drive the 

 sections so close together that propolis 

 cannot be pushed between them. 

 Wedges answer the purpose very well. 

 2. I use, principally, broken sections, 

 split into narrow strips. — Eugene Secor. 



1. I should key up with wedges in all 

 cases. They are less expensive than 

 screws, and are not affected by change- 

 able temperature. 2. It will not require 

 much inventive genius to make a few 

 wedges that will answer the purpose, 

 and be easily removed. 3. I think iron 

 would be preferable, both in the matter 

 of cost'and convenience. — J. E. Pond. 



1. I do not want a "follower" in my 

 section cases. They add to the number 

 of loose traps to take care of, and to the 

 work of cleaning. I decide what width 

 of section I want to use, and make the 

 cases just right to take them, using a 

 slip from a section as a wedge to tighten 

 up the sections. "Thumb screws" 

 make to much " fixing " to my taste. I 

 do not like slats at the bottom of my 

 cases. They are hard to clean, and 

 smash bees. — G. W. Demaree. 



1. Either may be successfully used 

 according to the notion of the apiarist, 

 and the operator being accustomed to 

 their use. 2. If the follower and wedge 

 are of the same bevel they will hold all 

 together more perfectly, and also may be 

 readily removed. 3. Wood screws are 

 cheaper, and will answer every purpose. 

 — The Editor. 



Texas will have an exhibit costing 

 $300,000 at the World's Fair. In a 

 circular the committee remarks thus: 



Texas must not fail to participate in 

 an exhibition costing nearly fifty millions 

 of dollars ; one in which every nation 

 and commonwealth in the world will be 

 represented, and where she can show 

 her vast resources to fifty millions of 

 visitors, which means in five years a 

 million new people, and five hundred 

 millions more money to circulate in our 

 State. 



