S8 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



T SUPER. 



In the latter part of the same year I attended the 

 North American convention at Toronto, Canada, and 

 while there D. A. Jones showed me the T super (Fig^. 5). 

 I was much impressed by it. The next year I put a 

 number of T supers in use, and the more I tried them 

 the better I liked them. I have tried a number of other 

 kinds since, but nothing- that has made me desire to 

 make a chang-e. 



THICK TOP-BARS. 



When attending- that same convention, that very 

 practical Canadian bee-keeper, J. B. Hall, showed me his 

 thick top-bars, and told me that they prevented the build- 

 ing of so much burr-comb between the top-bars and the 

 sections. Although I made no immediate practical use 

 of this knowledge, it had no little to do with my using 

 thick top-bars afterwards. I was at that time using the 

 Heddon slat honey-board (Fig. 6) and the use of it with 

 the frames I then had was a boon. It kept the bottoms 

 of the sections clean, but when it was necessary to open 

 the brood-chamber there was found a solid mass of honey 

 between the honey-board and the top-bars. It was some- 

 thing of a nuisance, too, to have this extra part in the 

 way, and I am very glad that at the present day it can 

 be dispensed with by having top-bars 1 14. inch wide and 

 Js inch thick, with a space of 54 inch between top-bar and 

 section. Not that there is an entire absence of burr- 

 combs, but near enough to it so that one can get along 

 much more comfortably than with the slat honey-board. 

 At any rate there is no longer the killing of bees that 

 there was every time the dauby honey-board was re- 

 placed. 



But it would take up space unnecessarily to follow 

 farther the course of the years, especially as these later 

 years are familiar to more of my readers than are the 



