. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MILLER TENT-ESCAPE can take hold of the lath with one hand, and with a single throw the hive is covered securely, with no killing of bees if any should happen to be in the way. MILLER TENT-ESCAPE. Having made the robber-cloth, an escape, not in the shape of a cone, but in the shape of a pyramid, is fastened centrally upon it. Take three equilateral pieces of wire-cloth. a point o'.; inches from each end, as shown in the figure. Make a fold at each of the dotted lines The wire-cloth may be cut away at the two outside dotted lines, or. what is better, t
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. MILLER TENT-ESCAPE can take hold of the lath with one hand, and with a single throw the hive is covered securely, with no killing of bees if any should happen to be in the way. MILLER TENT-ESCAPE. Having made the robber-cloth, an escape, not in the shape of a cone, but in the shape of a pyramid, is fastened centrally upon it. Take three equilateral pieces of wire-cloth. a point o'.; inches from each end, as shown in the figure. Make a fold at each of the dotted lines The wire-cloth may be cut away at the two outside dotted lines, or. what is better, the end pieces may be folded over and sewed down. Now bring the two parts of the upper margin together and sew with wire, and then proceed to fasten the tent in place as before. In this latter case, of course, a hole must be cut at the top of the tent. A / \ / \ /l \ / each of the three sides measuring 11 inches. Put ihem together in the form of a tent, sew- ing the edges together at the three sides by weaving fine wire through. At the top, how- ever, let each of the pieces be folded out, so that a hole large enough to push your finger in will be left. Lay the tent centrally on the robber-cloth, and mark where the three corners (if the tent come. Now starting at each of these points, cut the cloth to the center. Cut I When one of these tent-escapes is placed on a pile of supers, or on a hive containing bees, the bees will pass out freely at the top, but the bees that try to get in attempt to make the entrance farther down. Once in a great while there will gather a bunch of the out- going bees at the top so as to clog the exit, and then the robbers will settle on this bunch of bees and work their way in, but a little smoke will scatter the bunch of The " Old Reliable " seen through New and Unreliable Glasset. By E. E. Hasty, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio, PERHAPS A CASE OF SWARMING ODT. On page 377, a friend interested in bees, but quite uninformed about :hem, asks
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