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DR. MILLERS 
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 between 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 you 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 honey were five 
times as heavy. 
Tupelo.— Q. From where does the tupelo honey come? 
A. Tupelo (also called Gum) is a tree of the south. It is espe- 
cially abundant in Florida, where it yields quantities of honey. 
Uniting. — Q. 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 
tc. save the queen, then you had better unite in the fall, since 
there is much danger that a weak colony will not winter through. 
Q. 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 serve the same purpose. 
Q. How will it do to use a fine spray of water to unite bees? 
A. I don’t believe it would do very well, but don’t know, 
