336 FORTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES. 



the super, so much that in some cases the wedge stick will 

 drop down. The metal springs adjust themselves to this 

 and continue to press the sections together, although 

 with less force, after all have entirely dried out. It is 

 easier to put the springs in, and very much easier to take 

 them out. In a word, the sticks are not always a fit, and 

 the springs are. 



Another thing, perhaps, of still more importance, is 

 that the stick, being crowded in diagonally, forms a 

 pocket in which the bees are apt to congregate when one 

 is trying to get them out of the super, and it is very hard 

 to dislodge them from this pocket. The springs form no 

 such pocket. 



Marengo, 111. 



INDEX TO APPENDIX 



Baby Nuclei 330 



Beginner Improving Stock 333 



Breaking Up Faulty Colonies 325 



Brood and Pollen in Sections 329 



Changes in Bee-Keeping 321 



Cutting Foundation Starters 322 



Doubling Queens in Nuclei 330 



Emphatic Season 326 



False Bottom 321 



Giant White Clover - 322 



Hay-Eack for Hauling Bees 331 



Hive-Stands 321 



Improvement in Push-Board 329 



Italianizing with Natural Swarming 334 



Quality of Queens 333 



Scraper for Scraping Sections 332 



Starting Queen-Cells 332 



Super Springs 334 



Swarming Problem 328 



Wetting Sections 322 



Wintering in Cellar with Furnace 323 



