. Gleanings in bee culture. be service-able for any other climate.—Ed.] SWARTHMORES GLOSSOMETER. How to Measure the Tongues of a Whole Colonyof Bees. BY It is a sort of meter that I have devised,constructed as follows : A dish of tin is bal-anced in a box just like a compass, by use ofwire nails and solder, strips of Israss, top of the dish is covered with hard woodnailed on firmly. In the middle of this coveris bored a one-inch hole, which is covered onis under side with wire cloth Off to one^ide is a float of cork having a piece of strapsteel attached to its under side,
. Gleanings in bee culture. be service-able for any other climate.—Ed.] SWARTHMORES GLOSSOMETER. How to Measure the Tongues of a Whole Colonyof Bees. BY It is a sort of meter that I have devised,constructed as follows : A dish of tin is bal-anced in a box just like a compass, by use ofwire nails and solder, strips of Israss, top of the dish is covered with hard woodnailed on firmly. In the middle of this coveris bored a one-inch hole, which is covered onis under side with wire cloth Off to one^ide is a float of cork having a piece of strapsteel attached to its under side, in the small hole is pierced through the pan cov-t r, and a knitting-needle is pushed down into1 he cork until it strikes the steel plate. Adial is constructed above the pan-cover, uponwhich is adjusted a recording hand, and theknitting-needle then fits into a little impres-sion close to its center in such a way that therise and fall of the cork will force the needleup and down, and, being at such a long lever-. PER FRAME — age, the hundredth part of an inch will makean eighth or more at the end of the hand. Fill the tin pan with thin honey and allowit to stand long enough to soak the corkthoroughly, then place the instrument on topof the frames of the colony to be measured,and cover all with an upper story. The beeswill suck up the syrup through the meshes ofthe wire, and the cork will gradually needle will, of course, follow ; and bylines on the dial the hundredths may be plain-ly seen. Move the instrument from hive tohive. I have found among my golden-all-overstock, reared this season, bees with extremelength of tongue — from .23 to . By re- 234 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Mar. 15 peated tests with the wire-cage method I findthat the full length of tongue is put out bythe bees through the wire. [The general scheme of your measuring-device is very ingenious ; but after all it wouldmeasure only the longest tongued bees in acolony. There is a slight
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