. A manual of bee-keeping. Bees. DRONE AND BEE-TRAPS. 147 The first requisite is a box (fig. 59), dark when closed, and large enough to hold the super, or any number of them; holes three-quarters of an inch in diameter are bored in the front of the box, and the traps, as fig. 59, are hung or tacked over these holes. The trap is made of a block of deal seven-eighths of an inch thick by three- quarters wide and 2J inches long. Half the block is chamfered or sawn off, as in the drawing, which will give a sloping face to the block when in place. A quarter- inch hole is bored through the middle of
. A manual of bee-keeping. Bees. DRONE AND BEE-TRAPS. 147 The first requisite is a box (fig. 59), dark when closed, and large enough to hold the super, or any number of them; holes three-quarters of an inch in diameter are bored in the front of the box, and the traps, as fig. 59, are hung or tacked over these holes. The trap is made of a block of deal seven-eighths of an inch thick by three- quarters wide and 2J inches long. Half the block is chamfered or sawn off, as in the drawing, which will give a sloping face to the block when in place. A quarter- inch hole is bored through the middle of the block, and two staples of wire, about the thickness of an ordinary pin, are fastened one above the other below this hole. The staples are inclined upward, and are of such a width that a pin being dropped between from above can easily traverse them, and yet they must be narrow enough to prevent the head of the pin from slipping through, and its body from being pushed sideways much beyond the centre of the hole. A third square staple (fig. 60) is placed close above the upper round staple, and its points driven in until its horizontal part lies tightly against the. Fig. 60. Fig. 61. face of the block. The head oi the pin rests on this square staple, and the metal surface relieves the slight friction which sometimes might prevent the point of the pin from dropping into its proper place. L 2. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hunter, John. London, W. H. Allen
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