. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 241 The energy that is put in a hived swarm is left with the old colony ; with the artificial method, the workers are left with the old queen, and will work there, making new combs or filling old ones that may have been given them, as the case may be, while the old colony, by the natural method, has lost its old workers, except what workers were in the field at the time the swarm came ofif. So it is which and t'other ; bees that are of the proper age to gather honey will gather and store honey if it is to be had. Platteville, Wis
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 241 The energy that is put in a hived swarm is left with the old colony ; with the artificial method, the workers are left with the old queen, and will work there, making new combs or filling old ones that may have been given them, as the case may be, while the old colony, by the natural method, has lost its old workers, except what workers were in the field at the time the swarm came ofif. So it is which and t'other ; bees that are of the proper age to gather honey will gather and store honey if it is to be had. Platteville, Wis. Sept. 25, 1894 Q. The Stampede Bee Escape. O. W. DAYTON. TJRIEND H.:—I ir^ send you by this mail a model of my bee escape. (I have had a cut made.—Ed.) No. 1 is a section of the escape board proper. No. 2 is a gate of wire cloth hinged at its upper edge and under which the bees pass in their efforts to reach the opening (4), towards which they are drawn by the light coming in. By the time they reach the screen through which the light comes they discover a more satisfactory route (No. :») to the brood nest. No. 5 is the raised rim around the escape board. No. 6 is the escape proper, made of tin, a portion of which is cut away to show openings 8 and 4. The escape rests on the top side of the es- cape board instead of being let down into it. This renders the screened window discern- able from all points of the board, however distant. In my experiments I have found that they go through the escape rather than an open outside exit. In the case of an outside exit the first uneasy bees, after coming to the outside, return inside again, and it is not until they become very uneasy that they dare take wing or course down to the entrance on the outside surface of super and hive. The first attempt to reach the window results in such bee being trapped out of the super and obliged to proceed toward the brood cham- ber. Thus in this escape it is trap first and strange passage afterward
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