. A manual of bee-keeping. Bee culture; Bees. 146 A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. bridge which may be fitted to hives of a circular shape, yet, when reversed, will be found equally serviceable for plane-fronted hives. The trap is fixed to the hive by the piece of zinc, No. 6, which is screwed to the floor- board, and is held up by a support from the ground or by two light strips of wood which are thrust under the floor-board and catch two nails or pins in its sides. There are several other Drone-traps in use, but the principle of all is the same, i. e. to give the Workers free egress and ingress, but
. A manual of bee-keeping. Bee culture; Bees. 146 A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. bridge which may be fitted to hives of a circular shape, yet, when reversed, will be found equally serviceable for plane-fronted hives. The trap is fixed to the hive by the piece of zinc, No. 6, which is screwed to the floor- board, and is held up by a support from the ground or by two light strips of wood which are thrust under the floor-board and catch two nails or pins in its sides. There are several other Drone-traps in use, but the principle of all is the same, i. e. to give the Workers free egress and ingress, but the Drones only the former. Workers can pass through an aperture 3-l6ths of an inch in diameter ; Drones cannot. What are generally known as ^^^-traps, in contradis- tinction to DroneAxdi.'^'s,, are intended principally for clearing supers of the Bees when taken off the hive. We will suppose the Bee-master has been successful, and finds on his hive a well-filled super; now comes the. Fig- 59- operation of removing it, and ridding it of the bees. Many people find this last a formidable job, and some- times make such a bungle of it that robbers are at- tracted, to the loss of honey and beauty. My friend Mr. Cheshire suggested a very simple and inexpensive contrivance, which will be found very useful: he styles it the five-pin Bee-trap. On this the Rev. J. L. Zabriskie has made an improvement, which I will now describe. The drawings are from the ' Bee-keepers' Magazine,' of New Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunter, John, Hon. Secretary of the British Bee-keepers Association. London, D. Bogue
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