Gleanings in bee culture . that I had formerly usedfor storing honey. I took out the head,cleaned it out thoroly, and nailed a block 5inches high in the center of the bottom. I then cut a piece of aluininum-coatedwire cloth a little larger in diameter thanthe barrel and bent up the edge all aroundso as to form it in a shape similar to a pie-pan. This I tacked to the inside of thebarrel, 5 inches from the bottom, putting atack every 2 to 3 inches. The center of thewire cloth then rested on the block nailedto the bottom. 1 boicl a 1^/4-inch hole just above thebottom of the barrel and made a spig
Gleanings in bee culture . that I had formerly usedfor storing honey. I took out the head,cleaned it out thoroly, and nailed a block 5inches high in the center of the bottom. I then cut a piece of aluininum-coatedwire cloth a little larger in diameter thanthe barrel and bent up the edge all aroundso as to form it in a shape similar to a pie-pan. This I tacked to the inside of thebarrel, 5 inches from the bottom, putting atack every 2 to 3 inches. The center of thewire cloth then rested on the block nailedto the bottom. 1 boicl a 1^/4-inch hole just above thebottom of the barrel and made a spigot tofit it. A stick nailed across the top of thebarrel, with a nail driven thru from below,completed the arrangement. The whole thing did not take much longerto make than to tell about it, and it .workedas well as any capping-can I ever used. 1084 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE When I withdrew the plug the honey ran out80 clear and free from wax particles that itwas almost unnecessary to strain it. Ehineland, Mo. S. E. Staple-supported frame as used by A. K. Clement,Brunswick, O. Instead of the spacing-pins in therabbet Mr. Clement also uses spacing staples on theend-bars in the regular way. [Almost exactly this kind of frame wasdevised years ago, with this difference, thatit did not make use of metal pegs at inter-vals to regulate the. spacing of the objection to a staple projection is thedanger of si^litting the end-bars and top-barseither while they are inserted or while in use. The arrangement would not be very satis-factory where hives are moved about fromyard to yard.—Ed.] Should This Queen Lose Her Head? On p. 701, Sept. 1, Dr. Miller says his bestlayer in No. 81 is marked for decapitationbecause her bees do not deliver the it not a fact that the extra honey andpollen required to feed and rear these extranumbers of bees would make a fair surpluswith a less prolific queen? Would it not bea fair test, doctor, to balance that hive atnight with your
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