. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 665 Hiver and Orone-Xrap.—Mr. N. C. Petrie, of Cherry Valley, O., has obtained a patent on a new hiver and drone-trap, one of which is sent to our Museum. Mr. Petrie says : Its special object is to direct a swarm of bees into an empty hive. The attach- ment is hung on the hives by hooks secured to the upper side of the device. It is an elongated L-shaped box, with openings in the end, and deflecting cages or guide ways laid from the open- ings. These guide ways are made of zinc, perforated, the perforations being of a size to per
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 665 Hiver and Orone-Xrap.—Mr. N. C. Petrie, of Cherry Valley, O., has obtained a patent on a new hiver and drone-trap, one of which is sent to our Museum. Mr. Petrie says : Its special object is to direct a swarm of bees into an empty hive. The attach- ment is hung on the hives by hooks secured to the upper side of the device. It is an elongated L-shaped box, with openings in the end, and deflecting cages or guide ways laid from the open- ings. These guide ways are made of zinc, perforated, the perforations being of a size to permit the workers to pass ' readily therethrough, but pervents the escape of the queen and drones. The guide ways are entirely open on the. sides adjacent to the hives, so that the bees may freely enter, and by them be directed into the attachment. They may be also open at the bottom to affect an economy of material, the ledge of the hives preventing the bees from passing. The front and left sides are covered by wire screening, so that the movements of the bees may be observed. The main idea of our swarmer is to allow enough workers to accompany the queen to induce her to remain in the new hive, and we think that our swing- ing partition will allow three times as many bees to accompany the queen as can go with her by using the cone. The swinging partition is hung from the top of the box, and is met about two- thirds of the way by an elevated plat- form or step, which reaches to within 3^ of an inch of the bottom of the parti- tion or gate, leaving room for a worker to get under, but forcing the queen or drone to swing it inwardly. It is pre- vented from swinging outward by a staple in the top of the box inside. Queen - Cell Protectors are received from N. D. West, Middleburgh, N. Y., for our Museum. They will be illustrated and described next week. The engravings came too late for this issue. See page 684:, Hopkins, Mo., has had an attack of the "nuisance" fever. Mr.
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