THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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the vacant hive to reach their home. 

 When the bees are nearly ready to 

 swarm the queen excluder is to be 

 placed at front entrance of hive No. 2, 

 and its being large it will remain 

 where it is placed. 



It will take about fifteen minutes to 

 place the side hives and attach them 

 to about fifteen hives, and about one 

 minute to place the excluders in front 

 of ten hives. When the bees swarm 

 the que n and drones will be left be- 

 hind the excluders, consequently the 

 bees will cluster around the front of 

 the hive. At this time the hives 

 should be detached, and must not be 

 neglected in order to insure success, 

 otherwise the bees will enter the hive, 

 and unless comb is furnished for them 

 in hive No. 2, will all pass back into 

 hive No. 1. As soon as the hives are 

 separated No. 1 entrance is opened 

 and button closed down, the tube re- 

 moved from No. 2 and the buttons al- 

 so closed on that hive. There is no 

 danger of the queen passing back into 

 hive No. 1 before the bees cluster 

 upon the front of No. 2 and com- 

 mence to go in. Now, when the bees 

 have settled a little, you can regulate 

 the forces of the two hives just as you 

 desire by the manner of placing them 

 upon the stands. 



It has been demonstrated by Mr. 

 Lacy that by the use of the adjacent 

 hive, swarming is much less than it 

 otherwise would be. He recommends 

 the vacant hive to be filled with comb 

 and supers to be put on both hives 

 and left standing. In this way he has 

 had both hives and supers filled and 

 frequently the supers twice filled, all 

 from one colony. 



There are several other points of 



advantage in the use of this device 

 which will suggest themselves to any 

 one using it. 



The patentee seems to exercise no 

 desire to shove the hives upon the 

 market, but offers a written guarantee 

 that they will work successfully, if 

 manipulated according to the instruc- 

 tions he gives with each pair of hives. 

 The patent also extends to the use of 

 a front hive, when preferred, the 

 principle of connecting being virtual- 

 ly the same, but after testing the two 

 carefully last season, Mr. Lacy con- 

 cludes the foregoing illustration is 

 most convenient, and practically the 

 best. 



One good feature of the device is, 

 that at noon-day the bee-keeper can 

 pass along, pick up the queen exclud- 

 er, let the drones out, then set it down 

 in place, and in this way exterminate 

 the drones, or as many as are deemed 

 advisable. 



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