148 rORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



SUPER-FILLER. 



I'll tell you how to make a super-filler. Take a board 

 as large as the outside dimensions of your super or larger. 

 (The one in the picture is a board hive-cover.) Nail a 

 cleat on one end of the board, and another cleat on one 

 side, as in the picture. These cleats may he yi hy }i 

 inch, but the dimensions are not important. Now put a 

 super on the board, shoving one corner snug up in the 

 corner made by the cleats. With a lead-pencil, mark on 

 the board, on the inside of the super, where the sides of 

 the super come. Put eight sections in the super, four on 

 each side, with the three T tins in their proper places. 

 With a pencil rule across the board each side of each T 

 tin, so as to show where the T tins come. Now take off 

 the super and its contents, and get six strips, each iij^ 

 inches long and J4 inch square. Nail these on as shown 

 in the picture, so as to keep at equal distances from the 

 pencil-mark of the super at each side, and about a fourth 

 of an inch distant from the marks made for the T tins. 

 The super-filler is now complete. 



It stands at a convenient height at the right-hand 

 side of the one who operates the Daisy fastener, with 

 the side-cleat at the farther side (Fig. 87). A super is 

 placed on it with one corner of the super tight against 

 the angle made by the cleats ; but no T tin is yet put in the 

 super. As the sections come from the fastener they are 

 placed in the super at the end toward the back of the 

 operator. When the first row of six is completed, the T 

 tin is slipped under these sections into its proper place. 

 In like manner a second row of sections and a T tin ; then 

 a third row and a T tin, and lastly the fourth row. Then 

 without rising, the operator lifts this filled super to one 

 side and gets an empty one. 



