. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. alley's drone - excluder, drone and queen trap combined. The exact form of the arrangements de- scribed in the last figures was suggested by II. Alley, of Wenham, Mass., who has been for many years engaged in queen-rearing, and who publishes a book entitled The Bee- Keeper''s Handy Hook. It is cla
. The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary. Bee culture. alley's drone - excluder, drone and queen trap combined. The exact form of the arrangements de- scribed in the last figures was suggested by II. Alley, of Wenham, Mass., who has been for many years engaged in queen-rearing, and who publishes a book entitled The Bee- Keeper''s Handy Hook. It is claimed for these devices, that they will also prevent swarming by keeping the queen from getting out of the hive. So many reports have been given, showing thai a good many queens will get through any place that will allow a worker to pass readily, I think that, at the present writing (May, 1884), the matter needs demonstrating by more actual experiments. The perforated zinc is also sold largely for making honey-boards, and 1 believe they have been pretty thoroughly tested for this purpose. They seem to at least discourage the queen from going into the upper story, if they do not absolutely prevent her going. For both extracted and comb honey we can, by this means, be rea- sonably sure of not having any brood in the upper story, where we desire none. Within the past few months much atten- tion has been turned to the proper size for these perforations. The zinc imported from England, and manufactured by friend Jones, in Canada, has perforations a little more than 5-32 in width. That figured on the previous page, having the perforations oval at the ends, instead of square, are a scant 5-32. AVhile either kind answers completely for excluding drones, the larger size answers only partially for restraining queens. Now, if we are to prevent swarming by means of the queen-trap shown on the opposite col- umn, we want the perforations just large enough to let workers through, but so they w
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