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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



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W. Z, HDTCHINSON, Editor and Proprietor, 



VOL Xil. FLINT. MICHIGAN, FEBRUARY 10, 1899. NO 2, 



A NEW SEPARATOR. 



It is Simplicity Itself but it Holds up the 

 Sections. A Novel Ear-trumpet. 



JACOB ALPHAIGH. 



M' LTHOUGH I have been a comb honey 

 -^ producer for several years I have not 

 been entirely satisfied with the supers in 

 use. Section holders sag, upsetting the 

 bee-spaces and causing crevices into which 

 the bees shove their propolis. The old 

 style of T tins leave a stain of propolis 

 across the corner of each section. Both 

 of these arrangements are expensive. 



Finally I set to work and studied out 

 the case and separator shown in the 

 frontispiece for this month. I exhibited 

 this super at the Gueljjh convention and 

 the editor thought so highly of it that he 

 asked permission to take it home and 

 have a cut made from it; and requested 

 me to write a short description of it. 



In this super the sections rest upon tin 

 projections attached to the sides of the 

 separators, and the separators are support- 

 ed by the projecting edges of strips of 

 tin nailed to the lower edges of the ends 

 of the supers. These strips of tin that 

 are nailed to the end-pieces of the case 



also support the outside corners of the 

 end sections in each row. 



In the illustration shown, one row of 

 sections, one separator, and three sections 

 from the next row have been removed. 

 The pieces of tin that support the sections 

 are y'z inch wide, 1)4 inches long; % inch 

 at the bottom being turned out at right 

 angles to catch and support the sections 

 at their corners. One might think from 

 looking at the picture that these strips of 

 tin extended to the tops of the separators, 

 but such is not the case; those streaks be- 

 ing caused by propoHs, the separator 

 having been in use. The strips of tin 

 are fastened to the separator by cutting 

 out a three-cornered piece on two sides, 

 bending the piece at right angles, driving 

 it through the separator and clinching it 

 on the opposite side. The separators are 

 countersunk where the tins go on, thus 

 allowing the sections to come up snug 

 against the separators. 



The sections are supported upon one 

 .side only, but this is quite sufficient. To 

 fill the super I begin at both sides and 

 work towards the center. I start with a 

 separator at each side, as I like to have a 

 separator at the outside; then, when the 

 super is full, I turn it upside down, and 

 all will drop out clean — no sections will 

 be broken from being attached to the 



