. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Black Sage and Wild Buckwheat. seconds to a super. For 1000 sections it would take I hours 16 minutes. In a day's work of 10 hours, that would al- low 2341 sections to get leady, or about 97% supers. Note, however, that this is speeding to the limit, and for steady work it would be only fair to allow about half more time. Indeed one should not be greatly discouraged if one took twice as much time. Of course, some one might make faster work, but the rate mentioned is going some. This work must be counted on by one who produces comb honey, and this work
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Black Sage and Wild Buckwheat. seconds to a super. For 1000 sections it would take I hours 16 minutes. In a day's work of 10 hours, that would al- low 2341 sections to get leady, or about 97% supers. Note, however, that this is speeding to the limit, and for steady work it would be only fair to allow about half more time. Indeed one should not be greatly discouraged if one took twice as much time. Of course, some one might make faster work, but the rate mentioned is going some. This work must be counted on by one who produces comb honey, and this work is spared to the one who produces extracted honey. Our Deep Bottom-Board—How Made Inquiries have been made as to our deep bottom-boards, especially as to how they are made, and one man even wanted to have a sample sent to Cali- fornia. They are so very simple in construction that a sample is not at all necessary. Here is what is said about it in " Fifty Years Among the Bees:" " The bottom-board is a plain box, 2 inches deep, open at one end. It is made of six pieces of ,"s-inch stuff; two pieces 22J2x2, one piece 12,'sx2, and three pieces I3".,x7.!^. When so de- sired the bottom-board is fastened to the hive by means of four staples IX inches wide, with points '4-inch long. "With such a bottom-board there is a space 2 inches deep under the bot- tom-bars, a very nice thing in winter, and at any time when there is no dan- ger of bees building down, but quite too deep for harvest-time. Formerly I made the bottom-board reversible, reversing it in summer so as to use the. ALKALIA at the 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 [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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