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has three tin supports running crosswise. Each of these is made 

 of a piece of tin so folded that a cross section looks like a "T" up- 

 side down. You can buy T-tins of supply dealers for about a cent 

 apiece, probably much cheaper than you can get a tinner to make 

 them for. (See Super, "T.") 



Q. How high up b'etween the sections do your T-tins come? 

 Don't you have to saw a place for them in the separators? 



A. Some of my T-tins are three-eighths and some one-half 

 inch high. Either does. No place is sawed in the separator, 

 which rests directly on the T-tins. It would be bad to have the 

 separator come down lower. 



Q. I am informed that j'ou use nothing but the T-tin in your 

 comb-honey supers. It looks to me that they should be the best 

 all around, but they say that the weight of honey will make the 

 tins give or bend. What is your experience? The bees glue the 

 wood-holders very tight in this locality. The wood separators are 

 also troublesome. 



A. Whoever they are that "say that the weight of honey will 

 make the tins give or bend," it must be that they have never seen 

 a T-tin, or else they are poor judges of the strength of ordinary 

 tin. On the contrary, it would take a much greater weight to 

 bend a T-tin than to bend any wooden support in use in supers. 

 Remember that there are two thicknesses of tin standing one-half 

 inch upright. I have had 3,000 T-tins in use for many years, and 

 have never known one to be bent the slightest by the weight of 

 honey. It would probably be all the same if the hone}- were five 

 times as heavy. 



Tupelo. — y. From where does the tupelo honey come? 

 A. Tupelo (also called <_ium) is a tree of the south. It is espe- 

 cially abundant in Florida, where it \'ields quantities of honey. 



Uniting. — (J Is it advisable to unite a strong colony with a 

 weak one in July or August, or wait until spring? 



A. If the one colony is quite weak, or if you are not anxious 

 to save the queen, then you had better unite in the fall, since 

 there is much danger that a weak colony « ill nut winter through. 



(J. What kind of perfume is sprinkled over bees when uniting 

 two colonies to make them of the same odor? 



A. I think peppermint has been used, and anise, cloves, or any 

 other perfume might ser\'e the same purpose. 



O How will it do to use a fine spra}- of water to unite bees? 



.\ I don't believe it would do very well, but don't kno\\-. 



