. Gleanings in bee culture. ave donepretty fairly. Our neighbor Rice is one ofthese.—In regard to the honey-boards, I havehad little faith in any sort of a wooden ar-rangement for restraining queens,because wetried it so many times at the time we wereall excited about fertilization in great many of us imagined we had suc-ceeded ; but careful watching showed thatthe virgin queens went through almost assmall a place as worker-bees; and late re-ports which have appeared in ;sindicate that queens get through the Jonesperforated zinc as well. I was greatly inter-ested in the
. Gleanings in bee culture. ave donepretty fairly. Our neighbor Rice is one ofthese.—In regard to the honey-boards, I havehad little faith in any sort of a wooden ar-rangement for restraining queens,because wetried it so many times at the time we wereall excited about fertilization in great many of us imagined we had suc-ceeded ; but careful watching showed thatthe virgin queens went through almost assmall a place as worker-bees; and late re-ports which have appeared in ;sindicate that queens get through the Jonesperforated zinc as well. I was greatly inter-ested in the words you use in your reportabove, where you say, in adjusting the tinstrips, you made a space the merest trifleless tlian )-o2 of an inch. Now, friends, 1have had an idea that worker-bees can getthrough a smaller space than Mr. Jonesmakes in his perforated zinc, and to test it Iliave had made 1000 square feet of perforated zinc with meshes in like the cut below. Infact, this cut is an imprint of a bit of thezinc itself :. PEKBOKATED ZIKC, WITH SM PERFOKATIONS. Worker bees can get through this; butthe only trouble I anticipate is, it will scrapeotf the pollen worse than the Jones if we cannot use it in restraining queensand drones, I shall use it for am glad to be able to say, we can furnishit to you, cut into sheets of any size, for1-j cts. per square foot; or for whole sheets,8x7 or 3x8 feet, as you choose, at a cost , and $2,8o i)er sheet respectively. Ihope somebody whose bees are now bring-ing in pollen will make a test of it at once. DUOIVE-TRAPS AND QVEEN-GUARDS. SOME OF FRIEND INVENTIONS. laifrK. LANGSTROTH has lately called our atten-