Gleanings in bee culture . must ferment, produce intlammation, dys-entery, exhaustion, and death of the bees. Come,let us reason together. Geo. B. Peters. Council Bend, Ark., Sept. 25,1881. sojuething to put under thecushions. THE PROBLEM SOLVED APPAKEMTLY. SWENT into the saw-room the otherday, and Mr. Gray was at work at somequeer-looking thing with eight legs,that looked as if it might be guilty of killingsheep, or sucking eggs, if it got loose afterdark.• What in the world is that, Mr. Gray V Why, it is something that Shane broughtover. He wants us to make 189 like it — onefor each of his h
Gleanings in bee culture . must ferment, produce intlammation, dys-entery, exhaustion, and death of the bees. Come,let us reason together. Geo. B. Peters. Council Bend, Ark., Sept. 25,1881. sojuething to put under thecushions. THE PROBLEM SOLVED APPAKEMTLY. SWENT into the saw-room the otherday, and Mr. Gray was at work at somequeer-looking thing with eight legs,that looked as if it might be guilty of killingsheep, or sucking eggs, if it got loose afterdark.• What in the world is that, Mr. Gray V Why, it is something that Shane broughtover. He wants us to make 189 like it — onefor each of his hives. It was sent him bysome great bee-man down near Cincinnati,who never loses his bees wintering. Was it Muth V•No, that was not the name. inn? Yes, Hill; that is the man. He wroteShane a letter and sent him this machine,which I think is to be put under the cushion,to make a chamber for the bees to cluster in,so they can readily pass over the framesfrom one to the otlier. Here is a picture of the thing, my hills device FOR COVElMNGTHE FRA^IESIN W^INTER. I saw Mr. Shane when became after them,and he has promised me the letter from , but it has not come yet. The sticksare sawed on a circle, from half-inch bass-wood. They are sawed on a curve thatwould make a circle of perhaps .5 inches indiameter. The stuff is held at an anglewhen sawed, so the outer surface is some-thing like the surface of a sphere. The twoiusitie sticks are 9 inches in length; the twooutside ones, only S. The back-bone, as itwere, is a strip of very light hoop-iron, likethat used to hoop pails, it is about a footlong, which holds the ribs about 4 inchesapart. Y ou set this on the frames, then layover it a piece of bagging, or burlap, and tillthe upper story with chaff. It occurred to me, when I first saw it, thatunder this would be a splendid place to putsticks or bricks of candy, when candy has tobe fed. Mr. Shane said he used four cobs,similarly placed last winter on all his stocks,b
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