The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1893-03-17
FRIDAY MORNING. MAR. II, 1898.

the room so warm that the mercury WIN
stand at 90 degrees TO 100 degrees for
three or four nours before you extract,
These partly filled sections II extracted
without warming would be ruined, and
the apiarist's prospect of large yield
of honey the coming season would be
much impaired also, for these combs are
better TO him than money in the bank,
when used as "bait sections"
After the honey is extracted these
sections are to be put in the center wide
frame for each hive, so as to secure an
early commencement of work by bees IN
the sections and so the full sections
shall not ali come off at once, which will
cause the bees to be loath to enter Sec
ond set Fill the rest of the wide frames
with empty sections. each having n start
er of nice white comb or comb founda-
ton attached to the top. To put on this
starter get a fat piece Of iron and heat
it. Hold the starter close to the top OF
the section (now turned bottom side up),
draw the iron under the starter and inn
mediately place it (the starter) in the
right position. and it becomes fixture.
After having your wide frames all fitted
as directed pack them away so that
they will be ready for use at moments
notice next June.
The next work is to get out material
for more section boxes, if we have ma
chinery. or to purchase the material in
| the fat if we do not get it out ourselves.
| T. does not matter so much how it is OBJ
tanned as when it is got ready, for if put
off until just before the honey harvest
the result almost always shows a greater
| or less loss To arrive at the number we
wish. if we allow 100 l-pound sections
for each old colony in the spring we
shall find the estimate not far out of the
way, writes e. M. Doolittle. authority
for the foregoing, in The American Bee
| Journal AS soon as the sections are on
hand furnish each one with nice starter
and pack them nicely away.
| Next, we are to make or get what
hives we wish, together with more wide
frames. if we think more will be needed.
Fill all of the wide frames from the pile
of sections as before directed, put strip
of foundation in each brood frame and
pack all nicely away. This strip of
foundation is placed in the frames as a
comb guide, where they are not filled full
of foundation. Mr.. Doolittle uses strip
three-quarters of an inch wide. and, to
fasten it to the frame, get out boar
which is the size of the inside of yoU,
frame and only half as thick, which is
to be fastened to another board little
longer, having handle to it, so that il
can be easily held in the left hand.
Now lay the frame on the thin board
and then place the stripof foundation OF
it and next to the top bar of tie frame
Now tip the board to such an angle thai
the top bar of the frame and the strip o.
foundation will make V shaped trough
which is to be so inclined that when The
melted wax is poured in at the upper enc
it will Immediately run down to thu
lower end. which the melted wax il
passing along adheres to both the frame
and foundation, thus fastening the stril
of foundation securely. Then there arr
the shipping cases for the honey to b.
prepared; shipping cages for queens, i
we rear queens for sale, ETC.. all of which
should be prepared during the wintr,
days, so that when spring opens we shall
have nothing to do but to give our who'll
attention to the bees q