. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. It will be seen that unlike the old style it has a piece of wire gauze on either side, so that the queen does not come in direct contact with the tin slide, which in cool weather would be liable to chill her, and there are also two \ in. holes through the end filled with candy and also one through the side, thus enabling a number of bees to be at work at once liberating the queen. When the candy is consumed the queen emerges through one of the holes. By using this cage the brood comb is not mutilated, as the cage is simply hung by one of the tin p
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. It will be seen that unlike the old style it has a piece of wire gauze on either side, so that the queen does not come in direct contact with the tin slide, which in cool weather would be liable to chill her, and there are also two \ in. holes through the end filled with candy and also one through the side, thus enabling a number of bees to be at work at once liberating the queen. When the candy is consumed the queen emerges through one of the holes. By using this cage the brood comb is not mutilated, as the cage is simply hung by one of the tin points in the brood chamber between two frames, so that, by spacing the frames the bees will have access to both sides of the cage. As a rule, I prefer to hive all swarms on the old stand,removing the old col- ony to a new stand, thereby throwing all of the working force into the new hive on the old stand, removing the sur- plus department from the old hive to the new.—Dootittle. A New Swarm Hiver. Below we give an illustration of a new swarmer, the invention of Mr. N. C. Petrie, of Cherry Valley, O, He has recently obtained a patent on it. As will be seen in the illustration, it con- sists of a box, which is the trap, made of wire cloth and wood, and two other boxes or guides made of queen exclud- ing zinc. The swarmer is used in the position shown, with the perforated zinc boxes, which are open on the bottom and sides towards the hive, in front of the hive It is, of course, understood that one oP the hives is empty. The bees, which are about to swarm, issue from the hive entrance through the holes in the per- forated zinc into the open air. But, the queen is stopped, as the perforations are too small to admit of her escape. She then crawls along into the central box through a wire gauze cone which will not admit of her returning, thence through another cone into the other perforated zinc box, and then into the empty hive, where the young swarm will follow her. The
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