. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. COMB IIOXEV. )>I ! IIOXEY. it takes sduip time to watdi tlie liecs on the clotli. ami turn it over every little wliile. so implements have li.'en devised tliat would let bi'es out. but wnnld not iK'rniil tliem to return. The \vire-ch)tli covers li,t;nied at the dose of the article on Dkonks worked i)ret- ty well for this piirjiose. Another device, much used liy our English friends, is called a l)?e-trap. The bees, in goingout. raise a pin. or nail ; and as this drops after them it makes a
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. COMB IIOXEV. )>I ! IIOXEY. it takes sduip time to watdi tlie liecs on the clotli. ami turn it over every little wliile. so implements have li.'en devised tliat would let bi'es out. but wnnld not iK'rniil tliem to return. The \vire-ch)tli covers li,t;nied at the dose of the article on Dkonks worked i)ret- ty well for this piirjiose. Another device, much used liy our English friends, is called a l)?e-trap. The bees, in goingout. raise a pin. or nail ; and as this drops after them it makes a i>retty sure thing of it. A young friend in our own connlry has devised a sim- ilar arriingenicnt made of pins. \\'e give an illustration of it below, and also his letter of explanation with it: My plan is to prepare a close-tittiiiK box witli an enti-aiice (or. rather, place of e.\it) similar to that of theohrtff hive: over this entrance I have arranged a sort of tnip so that the bees can pass one way only. Take a woollen bar about the size of a lenO-pencil. and put thnmjrh it a row of common pins, alwiut T to I he inch; this must be swunjf on pivots, so that the pinpoints may rest on the "jHrnping-oir ;. rot DEKs i;i:i;-Ti;.\i'. Just place yo\ir comb honey inside of this no more is reiuircd. Sow, friend Koot. is the idea old. or is it too much machinery? I know it works well, for I have tried it. We want some one to imeiit a little bucket for the bees to carry when honey is abundant. Wouldn't that be nice, to sec them skip out so early in the morning, and bring back honey by the pailful? W.\LTElt S. POUDEH. Grocsbeck, O., JIarch 2*. 1S«. In the article on IIONKY-lIcnsKs. a plan is given to let the bees out at the window, but not permitting them to retinii again. MAUKETIXG COJin HOXKY. There is nothing that can make a bee-keeper feel better than clean cash for his surplus honey ut the end of the season.—vltium Urimm, page .SB, 1 ul. I., —
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