. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 230 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [July 20, 1916. extent. It will impede ventilation very little. We are afraid you will be unable to cut the apertures in a wood excluder accu- rately enough to prevent the queen getting through. The most likely metbod will be to bore pairs of holes of the right diameter in a line, and then with a fret saw or a chisel cut away the ^^ood between each pair; use 3-ply fretwood. You could overcome the difficulty of shoulders for frames by tacking pieces of wqod on each side of top bar above the frame ends. These sho
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 230 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [July 20, 1916. extent. It will impede ventilation very little. We are afraid you will be unable to cut the apertures in a wood excluder accu- rately enough to prevent the queen getting through. The most likely metbod will be to bore pairs of holes of the right diameter in a line, and then with a fret saw or a chisel cut away the ^^ood between each pair; use 3-ply fretwood. You could overcome the difficulty of shoulders for frames by tacking pieces of wqod on each side of top bar above the frame ends. These should be about 1 inch loner, as thick as the frame top bar, and wide enough to give the desired spac- ing. Hives should not be under trees in this country because they would be too much in the shade, and they would be toodamp from the rain or other moisture dripping on to them.—Eds.]. Correspondents desiring an answer in the next issue should send questions to reach this office NOT LATER than the FIRST POST on MONDAY MORNING. Only SPECIALLY URGENT ques- tions will be replied to by post if a STAMPED addressed envelov- is enclosed. All questions must be accompanied by the sender's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a guarantee of good faith. There is no fee for answering questions. J. iS. Andrew (Devon).—Extracting Combs from Sfeep.—The extractor will take the ihoney out. The difficulty ds to hold the combs to uncap them, and to turn them round to extract both Uniting Driven Bees.—The number of lots to be joined together will deipend on their stxength. It almost invariably needs the bees from at least two skepiS to make a decent colony, and at times we have found four lots only cover ton standard combs. You may put them on twenty combs, -but if they are strong enough to do 60, it will be better to make two stocks of them. They should ibe fed until each lot has 301bs. of syrup sitored m the combs. A standard comib will hold about 51bs. of syrup or home
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