THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



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all right, the bees not gnawing the paper to 

 amount to anything, but when I set a super 

 right down on the frames with no honey 

 board between, and no oil cloth, the bees cut 

 great holes in the stoutest kind of manilla 

 paper in three days time, and let the shav- 

 ings all down amongst them. I had a regu- 

 lar circus getting off those supers, and how 

 I should have laughed at any other man who 

 would have cut up such a caper. Over the 

 super is placed the hive cover with a stone 

 on top to keep the wind from blowing oft the 

 cover. 



To keep the rain out of the packin", and 

 the wind from blowing it away, narrow shin- 



a more perfect protection over the top of 

 the hive than can be secured by the other ar- 

 rangement which is ample for spring. 



I also present another view of the same 

 portion of the yard taken later in the season, 

 showing some of the hives with supers tiered 

 up and shade boards in place. The hive in 

 the fore ground with the cover tipped back 

 and some smokers sitting inside it, is a chaff 

 hive that some good friend sent me years 

 ago, and I now uss it as a little house for 

 keeping my smokers, smoker-fuel, matches, 

 and spring bottom oil can filled with kero- 

 sene oil. Don't keep these things in build- 

 ings ; it is too dangerous. 



Al'iAKY IN SUMMBK. 



gles were placed in a slightly slanting position 

 against the sides of the super, their lower 

 edges resting on the tops of the shingles to 

 / which they were tacked with wire nails. 



I give an illustration showing a part of my 

 apiary after some of the hives had been un- 

 packed the latter part of May. It will be 

 noticed that one hive in the fore ground is a 

 trifle higher than the others and has a differ- 

 ent roof. I had this arranged in this man- 

 ner to show how I would use these shingle 

 packing boxes were I to pack the bees out of 

 doors in the fall and leave them on their 

 summer stands all winter. Two of the boxes 

 are telescoped together nearly half way and 

 a shade board is used for a roof. This allows 



Do Bees Add Any'iWax in /Drawing Out 

 Foundation'? 



In this special number devoted to founda- 

 tion is a proper place to quote the following 

 from Gleanings for February 1st. It is 

 written by Mr. M. W. Shepard, of Rochester, 

 Ohio. He says : — 



" The article in the December ir)th issue of 

 Olea7iings, from R. L. Taylor, leads us to ask 

 whether bees ever thin the septum of comb 

 foundation at all ; if so, under what condi- 

 tions ? Do they ever pull the side walls of 



