. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 143 The plan used is the invention of my assistant, and I think I cannot do better than to let her tell about it by eopyini;' tlie followiBg article which she wrote for Gleanings in Bee Culture; "When we commenced work in the shop, the first super I filled with the nice clean sections, I looked at the T tins all covered with propolis and thought to myself: 'If we are to have sections unstained by propolis it will never Jo to jnit them on these dirtj' T tins. But, oh dear! it will be an endless task to scrape them all. 1 can n
. Fifty years among the bees . Bees. FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 143 The plan used is the invention of my assistant, and I think I cannot do better than to let her tell about it by eopyini;' tlie followiBg article which she wrote for Gleanings in Bee Culture; "When we commenced work in the shop, the first super I filled with the nice clean sections, I looked at the T tins all covered with propolis and thought to myself: 'If we are to have sections unstained by propolis it will never Jo to jnit them on these dirtj' T tins. But, oh dear! it will be an endless task to scrape them all. 1 can never do it. Just then a liajiiiy thought. Fig. 44—Watering-crook. sti-uck me. Why not boil the propolis off? Sure enough, why not? "T repaired to the kitchen, placed the wash-boiler on the stove (one we use for such work), filled it witli water and T tins, then went back to the shop to work, and left them to boil at their own sweet will, delighted to think I had such an in- spiration. In about an hour I went back to the kitchen to see how my T tins were progTessing. I fully expected to see them all nice and clean, and was most bitterly disappointed to find that they looked even worse than they did when I put them in, as the propolis was more evenly distributed all over them,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Miller, C. C. (Charles C. ), 1831-1920. Medina, Ohio : A. I. Root Co.
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