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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



opening's causing' a draft through the 

 building where the screens were, the 

 aroma, or scent, of new honey caused the 

 robbers to congregate at the screens. 

 Then when one of us entered the honey 

 house, a raft of these prowling robbers 

 would go in with us. The remedy was 

 simple; use the panel door mentioned 

 above, then the robbers will cong'regate at 

 the windows, and leave the doors practi- 

 cally free from bees. 



The frames for the ends are built simi- 

 lar to the ones for the sides, with the ad- 

 dition of gable ends built at one-third 

 pitch. The siding is put on up and down 

 and projects down an inch or so below 

 the sill, so the water will not crawl in 

 under upon the floor. The foundation is 

 m.ade an inch scant of 12x16 ft., so that 

 the siding that projects down an inch will 



slip over it, letting the sill of the building 

 rest on the floor. 



The 2x4 corner posts are set in such a 

 way that when the building is set up the 

 flat sides come together, thus n.aking it 

 more convenient in bolting them together. 



It is convenient, when setting up the 

 house, to so locate it that the ground 

 slopes towards the door, in front. Then 

 do not g'et the building so high from the 

 ground but that a little banking up in 

 front will make a bridge, so that the 

 wheel-barrow will run in on nearly level 

 ground. 



Such a house will cost S50 or S60, 1 

 should think, in this locality : and it weighs 

 between 5,000 and 4,000 pounds. We 

 draw a house to one load, on our flat bee- 

 rack. 



Remus, Mich.. Feb. 12, 1907. 



Sections and Supers, Management 

 Before Swarming. 



E. F. ATWATER. 



FQR the production of comb honey we 

 prefer the standard, eight-frame 

 hive; and supers for 4^ x 4^4 x 1 % bee- 

 way sections, containing six, single-tier, 

 wide frames. The wide frames are simi- 

 lar to the ordinary, section holders, only 

 we have the bottom-bars made ->s inch 

 thick, to do away with the sagging and 

 all-round pitiful frailty of the ordinary 

 section-holder with its bottom bar only j4 

 inch thick. The top-bar is only % inch 

 thick and fastened with only one small 

 nail, not cement, coated at each end. 



This allows the top-bar to be slightly 

 loosened, if necessary, that the full sec- 

 tions may be readily removed from the 

 wide frames. With this arrangement, no 

 "play" need be allowed between the top- 

 bars of the sections and the top-bar of 

 the wide frame. This arrangement is 



just fine, as it does away with the worst 

 faults of the old-style wide frame, yet 

 protects the sections from propolis and 

 stain as does no other super. We use 

 some other supers as an object-lesson to 

 our students. We have some T-supers 

 with their many faults — the hopeless 

 staining of the top and bottom of every 

 section, the all-round lack of "fixedness"" 

 of its contents, the corner-spaces and lit- 

 tle sticks to fill them--all these, and more, 

 combine to make the T-super very unde- 

 sirable in many localities. 



The section-holder without a top-bar 

 leaves unprotected the top of every sec- 

 tion to be stained according to the slow- 

 ness of the flow and the time required for 

 the bees to fill the super. The bottom- 

 bars, as before stated, are so frail as to 

 sag, and do not prove desirable. 



