| Show IN THE or two bound section G M Doolit tio tho well known apiarist uses paper pans easido of his shipping cases to catch tho drip from anny section that may cianco to leak pans are made of fauilla paper mr Doolit tio tells his plan as follows in tho american bee journal dieco of board was fitted to tho in sido of tho case the beani being seven eighths of an thick tho paper was now cut 1 larger each way than was this board that when this paper was folded ap evenly all around it the sides of tho paper paus were just seven eighths of an inch deep the pan was then slipped inside of the case and a little strip of wood just as long as alio case was wide and one halt inch wide by three sixteenths thick was placed at euch distances along the inside of the paper pan as was necessary so that the ends of the sections rested upon it thus keeping them up three sixteenths of an inch from the paper thus allowing the drip to rest below the sections that the outside of the cases was never soiled while the bottoms of the sections brero kept clean alio if anything should occur to start the honey in them leaking this of course the cases to bo made three sixteenths deeper than they would I 1 were it thesa little trips of wood bat tho keeping of the sections clean is of fully as mach importance as the preventing of the drip through the cases which colony will store the surplus honey the ono provided with one pound sections or tho ono having two pound sections the foregoing query was asked in the journal quoted and answered by 12 apiarists the majority seemed to think there is very little difference the little it any being in bayor of the two pound sections ono expressed tho opinion that the ono pound sections poll readily another thought that while honey is gained with tho two pound sections yon will havo finished sections with tho one pound style which are always salable A third beekeeper said 1 I do not think it makes any difference I 1 havo mado up my mind that when beca are disposed to detoro honey they will put it wherever they can find |
