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AMERICAN, BEE JOURNAL. 



dueries aiid Replies. 



Honey-BoarJs-f itli or Wlttioiit Frames 



Query 813. — Is a sheet of perforated 

 zinc, fitted snugly on the brood-frames, 

 as good an excluder as a frame one ? — 

 Wisconsin. 



No.— J. P. H. Brown. 



No, sir. — A. B. Mason. 



Yes. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



Yes. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



Not for me. — Eugene Secor. 



I do not know. — P. H. Elwood. 



In my opinion, yes. — E. France. 



I believe so. — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



I have not tried either, and do not 

 know. — M. Mahin. 



It will exclude as well, but the other 

 is preferred. — C. C. Miller. 



I prefer a frame one raised a bee-space 

 above, so that it will not be so tightly 

 glued. — A. J. Cook. 



Zinc correctly perforated is the best 

 excluder I know anything about. — H. D. 

 Cutting. 



Yes ; but not nearly as handy to use ; 

 that is to say, if I understand the ques- 

 tion rightly. — J. E. Pond. 



Yes, as effectual as an excluder, but 

 by no means as good in point of conven- 

 ience. — R. L. Taylor. 



Yes ; but it is less easy to remove 

 when it is glued fast, unless nailed to a 

 board or frame of some kind. — :Dadant 

 & Son. 



I have always allowed my queens to 

 go where they pleased in the hive, and 

 never used any excluder ; consequently 

 I do not know. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



I do not like it as well, as the bees 

 glue it so fast, that in i-emoving the zinc 

 it is liable to be kinked and injured. — 



G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



I think not ; it would become, with 

 use, bulged and warped, and when glued 

 tight to the frames, it might cause more 

 or less unpleasantness to you and the 

 bees to remove it., — S. I. Freeborn. 



It is as good as an excluder, but is not 

 as good a honey-board, because it will 



sag so that it cannot be kept where it 

 should be, a bee-space above the frames. 

 — J. A. Green. 



Yes, it will exclude the queen, but will 

 also exclude the full, practical manipu- 

 lation of itself ? Do not use such a con- 

 trivance; have a bee-space both above 

 and below the sheet of zinc. — James 

 Heddon. 



No ; for the reason that frames are 

 not so easily handled. The zinc also 

 becomes warped in handling, and the 

 bees will propolize it much more than a 

 wood-zinc board. — C. H. Dibbern. 



They are said to be fully as good, by 

 some excellent authorities. The rows of 

 the perforations should run crosswise of 

 the brood-frames. If the sheets of per- 

 forated zinc have a solid unperforatei 

 border, there should be no trouble about 

 using them, and they may be so made, 

 readily. — G. L. Tinker. 



I think not. When an unframed sheet 

 of perforated zinc is laid flat on top of 

 the frames, at least 4/5 of the perfora- 

 tions will be closed to the bees, by rea-' 

 son of lying flat on the top-bars of the 

 frames. Only such perforations as 

 chance to come over the spaces between 

 the frames will be opened for the bees 

 to pass through ; while, if the sheet of 

 zinc is framed or rimmed with wood, a 

 bee-space will intervene between the top- 

 bars of the frames and the sheet of zinc, 

 and the bees will have access to all the 

 perforations. In my locality, in hot 

 weather, the bees need all the perfora- 

 tions that are likely to be in any sheet 

 of zinc, for use in travel, but especially 

 for ventilation. — G. W. Demaree. 



No. There should be a bee-space on 

 each side of the zinc, or many of the 

 perforations will be useless. "Zinc 

 fitted snugly on the brood-frames" would 

 be fastened to them by propolis, and 

 while forcibly removing the zinc, it will 

 become bent and "kinked," so that it 

 will not lie down flat, and will be useless 

 for the purpose intended. — The Editor. 



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