. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. rEUFOI!.\TEDZIXC roi! KXILUDIXO I)Kf)XE . Zinc is the material generally used, because it is cheap, and will not rust. If we put a .strip of this material over the entrance, the worker-bees can go out. but the drones can not: but as a simple strip of zinc is liable to get clogged if there are many drones in the hive, an arrangement like the tig\ne below is ordinarih THE .TONES ENTUANCE-OlWRn. This we call the .lones entrance-guard, be- cause, if I am correct, it was devised or sug- gested b
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. rEUFOI!.\TEDZIXC roi! KXILUDIXO I)Kf)XE . Zinc is the material generally used, because it is cheap, and will not rust. If we put a .strip of this material over the entrance, the worker-bees can go out. but the drones can not: but as a simple strip of zinc is liable to get clogged if there are many drones in the hive, an arrangement like the tig\ne below is ordinarih THE .TONES ENTUANCE-OlWRn. This we call the .lones entrance-guard, be- cause, if I am correct, it was devised or sug- gested by him. Although he manufactures perforated zinc for this , the material was by no means originated by himself, for fre<|ueut mention of its use is made in the lirilish Jicc-Jounial as early as 187-5. When it is desirable to get the drones all out of a hive without permitting any to get back again, we pnl a giundover the entrance and then shake all the bees in front of the hive. The workers will, of course, crawl back on the empty combs: but the drones will have to stay out. and the (jueen too. un- less she should happen to be very small and 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 Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923. Sydney, Hebblewhite
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