. Gleanings in bee culture. ,1884. Charles Faust. The improvement will be readily un-derstood by the cut below. In makingthese guards, our tinners have cut them upwithout any special regard to where the to me it would be bettei- to rest on a sheet ofzinc, or some other hard substance, exactlylevel. Friend B. also gives some very goodreasons for having an opening made in thisdrone-guard, to be opened or closed at pleas-ure. Indeed, the bees would find it incon-venient to drag rubbish out of the hive atnight with this obstruction in the way,while it might as well be removed at night asnot. Now,
. Gleanings in bee culture. ,1884. Charles Faust. The improvement will be readily un-derstood by the cut below. In makingthese guards, our tinners have cut them upwithout any special regard to where the to me it would be bettei- to rest on a sheet ofzinc, or some other hard substance, exactlylevel. Friend B. also gives some very goodreasons for having an opening made in thisdrone-guard, to be opened or closed at pleas-ure. Indeed, the bees would find it incon-venient to drag rubbish out of the hive atnight with this obstruction in the way,while it might as well be removed at night asnot. Now, instead of the little gates he sug-gests, I would have the drone-guard hingedat one end, and held down lirmly by a buttonat either end. It can then be easily raisedso as to give a free passage at all times andseasons, when no guard over the entrance isneeded. I should dislike to have any thingover the entrance of the hives permanently,that hindered the bees from carrying out rub-bish, or dislodged the pollen while going openings come. Now, in cutting the sheet,if the part forming the lower edge is cut insuch a way as to leave the metal as at o, a, a,we shall have it as our friend prefers it—thatis, the bees can enter with loads of pollen,and walk right along on the the same time, a drone could not get outany more tlian he could get through theopenings. While this would control droneswithout any trouble, it seems to me the com-paratively uneven surface of tlie board form-ing the bottom of the hive or entrance wouldhardly be accurate enough. If we expectedthe arrangement to confine queeps, it seems MOVING REES TO CATCH BASSWOODBliOOm. A LOCALITY SUGGESTED, AND AN INVITATION EX-TENDED. I^RIEND is at hand, and as W full of good things as an egg is of meat. I j — have just read R. Stehles article on page 44 I with your remarks, and the plan is so feasible to me that I pen you a few About 13 miles from here there is what is calledth
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