. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 704 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. through the small end of the protector. Let loose with the right hand, and the coil will spring back and cover the butt end of the cell ; slip the tin cover in be- tween the wire coil, just above the butt end of the cell; then you are ready to put the cell in a hive. Then just spread the combs apart far enough to put your band in ; now push the spur of the protector in the comb where you want it (see Fig. 1). I leave them just below the top-bar. Now place your frames, and it is done. The top of the protector is in plain sight
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 704 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. through the small end of the protector. Let loose with the right hand, and the coil will spring back and cover the butt end of the cell ; slip the tin cover in be- tween the wire coil, just above the butt end of the cell; then you are ready to put the cell in a hive. Then just spread the combs apart far enough to put your band in ; now push the spur of the protector in the comb where you want it (see Fig. 1). I leave them just below the top-bar. Now place your frames, and it is done. The top of the protector is in plain sight when the hive is open. Care should be used to handle the cells right side up, without a jar. It is a satisfaction to look in a few days and find the cells all whole, except where the queen has helped herself out. The bees. COILED WIRE QUEEN-CELL PROTECTOR, WITH TIN SLIDE COVER. cannot destroy the cell before she hatches, if properly put in ; neither will it be destroyed by spreading the frames, if you wish to do so. Middleburg, N. Y. N. D. West. These spiral-spring queen-cell pro- tectors have been in our Museum for two years, and have been admired by all who have seen them. They are excel- lent for the purposes indicated by Mr. West, in the above article, and will no doubt very soon be considered indispen- sable in every well-regulated apiary. Mr. E. R. Root a'dds the following endorse- ment to Mr. West's article in last month's Gleanings: Mr. N. D. West is one of those bee- keepers at whose place I stopped in my bicycling tour. He owns about 400 col- onies distributed in three apiaries. Although I made at his place a very brief call of only some fifteen or twenty minutes, I became convinced of the fact, by looking around with his son (the father being absent), that he is one of the bee-keepers who ought to let their light shine a little more. I met him for the first time at the Albany convention, and there he showed me a spiral-spring cell-protector. Several bee-keepers who
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