. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 442 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November A RECORDING SCALE Details of a Scale Which Records the Changing Weight of the Colony, Hour by Hour, as the Bees Bring in the Honey By Lloyd R. Watson, Apiculturist Texas Experiment Station A scale so constructed as automat- ically to I'ecord time and weight is being used at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at College Sta- tion, in a series of experiments with bees. The periodical weighing of colonies of bees to determine the loss or gain over a given period, is com- mon among apicultural observers, and a very
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 442 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL November A RECORDING SCALE Details of a Scale Which Records the Changing Weight of the Colony, Hour by Hour, as the Bees Bring in the Honey By Lloyd R. Watson, Apiculturist Texas Experiment Station A scale so constructed as automat- ically to I'ecord time and weight is being used at the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station at College Sta- tion, in a series of experiments with bees. The periodical weighing of colonies of bees to determine the loss or gain over a given period, is com- mon among apicultural observers, and a very few more or less crude devices have been employed at one time or another to obtain continuous weight records of colonies of bees. To H. B. Parks, formerly connected with the above institution, is due the credit for devising the instrument, by the use of which exact, continuous, automatic record is being kept of the variations in the weight of a colony of bees. A careful survey of available ap- paratus made in the light of the ex- acting requirements of the experi- ment quickly demonstrated that there ^vas nowhere in existence an instru- ment that would answer the purpose. For example, the scale must be able to carry a constant load running as high as 300 pounds. The recording mech- anism must run at least eight days after a single winding, and it must be able to record changes of load within a range of 20 pounds at any point be- tween 50 pounds and 225 pounds every second of the time. The appa- ratus must be housed to protect it from the weather, yet meteorological conditions surrounding the hive on the scales must duplicate as far as possible those surrounding a hive in an open apiary. Therefore the scale must be constructed to withstand for an indefinite period of time the action of the weather, and especially the corroding action of humid air. As the result of much study and after consid- erable correspondence with some of the leading scale manufacturers of the United State
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