. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Harding Non-Swarming Device.—A, Entrance-Closing Board. hives when bees are gathering honey rapidly. Still, there will be trouble at seasons when foraging is not abundant. I have lost queens by transposing to prevent robbing and to strengthen up a weak colony, by not caging the queens at the time, away back, years ago. Still, we have to learn every- thing by experience, or what others tell us. I had to learn to walk by experience. Mr. Harding is an old, practical bee-keeper, and thinks he has solved a problem that will be of value to some. Orange Co.,
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Harding Non-Swarming Device.—A, Entrance-Closing Board. hives when bees are gathering honey rapidly. Still, there will be trouble at seasons when foraging is not abundant. I have lost queens by transposing to prevent robbing and to strengthen up a weak colony, by not caging the queens at the time, away back, years ago. Still, we have to learn every- thing by experience, or what others tell us. I had to learn to walk by experience. Mr. Harding is an old, practical bee-keeper, and thinks he has solved a problem that will be of value to some. Orange Co., Cal. m Fastening Foundation and Wiring Frames. BT B. F. ONDERDONK. The American Bee Journal is ever a welcome guest with me, interesting and instructing beyond any other in our pleas- ant occupation. Dr. Miller's replies are usually replete with information. I note on page 103, advice as to fastening foundation and wiring. I think the following a better way : I use a spirit lamp under a small tin basin (4 inches in diameter) containing some good beeswax, keeping it well melted, not too hot, and using a straight strip of tin, 7 inches. S/oc/cs Form for Fastening Foundation In the Sections. long by IJ^ inches wide. Dip what it will hold, and let the wax run into the saw-kerf, by holding the frame diagonally about 303. One dipping will run rapidly half the length of the frame ; another dipping will finish it. I make the saw- kerf 3/16 instead of V inch. For wiring, instead of pierced end-bars with wires run- ning through (they draw into the wood and sag), use ?i-inch fine wire nails run through them from the outside and turned up into a hook on the inside, using a small pair of pliers. The wire can be strung on the hook-uails then. And why did the Doctor not recommend a spur wire im- bedder or the lamp scheme? I fancy an inexpert hand would meet with disaster—destruction of one frame of foundation, to say nothing of the vexation, will pay for the imbedder. I fix fou
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