. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 38 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. clean, there is no trouble from the bees. We are often able to leave the door open at times when bees would rob, and there is no trouble. Each window has a screen of wire cloth to keep out the bees and flies, and allo«v the air to enter. At the top of each win- dow is a cone of wire cloth to allow the bees to escape. These cones are made by boring a hole^in a board, and pressing a piece of wire cloth into the hole by using a stick having a cone shaped end. Then, with a big spike, a hole is punched in the apex of the cone. Thes
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 38 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. clean, there is no trouble from the bees. We are often able to leave the door open at times when bees would rob, and there is no trouble. Each window has a screen of wire cloth to keep out the bees and flies, and allo«v the air to enter. At the top of each win- dow is a cone of wire cloth to allow the bees to escape. These cones are made by boring a hole^in a board, and pressing a piece of wire cloth into the hole by using a stick having a cone shaped end. Then, with a big spike, a hole is punched in the apex of the cone. These cones are some three inches long. The cellar is in the hill-side. It is of the Dadant pattern. It is ten feet wide, and extends into the hill about forty-five feet, and will hold 300 colonies of bees. The walls and roof are supported by heavy oak timbers placed eighteen inches apart. There are two ventilators; and two ante- rooms at the entrance. The floor is level with the apiary. Even the big, double, chaff hives, some of which I have in my apiary, are put into the cellar. These are pretty heavy to handle, so I usually wait until there is a little snow, when I set them, one at a time, on a sled, and slide them in. For carrying the combs to and from the yard I use boxes. Each box holds sixteen combs, which are just enough to fill an upper story to one of my chaff hives. One of these boxes full of empty combs is taken out and set down by the side of a hive. The cover to the hive is raised, the blanket over the combs turn- ed back, and one or two puffs of smoke sent down among the bees. As the combs of honey are taken out, the empty ones are put :n their places; thus, when the honey is all off, the bees have an empty set of combs. The box of combs full of honey is then carried in and set down by the extractor for the man in the bee- house to uncap and extract. As a rule, what few swarms I have are hived back in the old hive. In getting a swarm to cluster where I like, I use w
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