. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 376 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. with shallow frames and sections some- times prevents swarming. Carbolic sub- duing cloth unrolled over brood just enough to make them turn keeps clean air, and dispel moth, with balls of naph- thaline. This is a huge help. Queens allowed on double supers, stan- dard size, is asking for trouble and dirty honey through too much walking over the combs. Eemember the word "; Go to the best breeder for new queens. You soon get known for your celebrated stocks. Reducing to three stocks in winter mea
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 376 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. with shallow frames and sections some- times prevents swarming. Carbolic sub- duing cloth unrolled over brood just enough to make them turn keeps clean air, and dispel moth, with balls of naph- thaline. This is a huge help. Queens allowed on double supers, stan- dard size, is asking for trouble and dirty honey through too much walking over the combs. Eemember the word "; Go to the best breeder for new queens. You soon get known for your celebrated stocks. Reducing to three stocks in winter means clean hives for the spring, more care and less to worry about, with interesting winter months clearing up and getting ready for the next bout at the time of the song of the thrush, bloom, and sunshine, which denotes a prosperous year ahead, with bees and honey in large demand.—Cyril Tredcropt. Swarm Preventer and Drone Trap. In the days of the English bee,- one had only to give room a little in advance of the requirements of the stock, and swarming would rarely happen. Now, however, swarming is one of the worst troubles a bee-keeper has to contend against. All sorts of suggestions have been made, and hives with non-swarming chambers introduced (in these my bees swarmed before those in ordinary hives had thought of doing so), but, in spite of all precautions, they have swarmed out, leaving an empty super above the brood chamber, an empty compartment below it, and three sheets of foundation in the middle of the brood nest itself. Swarm catchers are cumbersome and unsightly, and, besides, it is not the swarm, but the queen, one has to catch. The device I use is simplicity itself, and is one any bee-keeper could contrive for himself. A piece of wire queen-excluder is cut to fit the entrance of the hive; a brass cone clearer is soldered on to the excluder, and the wires passing beneath the clearer are cut away, leaving a way into the clearer as large as the clearer itself. A pi
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