SOUTHERN BEE CULTURE 69 



bees love so much to deposit theif stings. This can all be avoided by wear- 

 ing a pair of gloves while handling bees. 



b:ee-brusbes. 



Tn the production of extracted or chunk honey, bee-brushes are very 

 necessary to sweep the bees off the comb, and very often it is better to brush 

 bees from an object than to smoke or jar them from it. 



SWARM-CATCHERS. 



When bees are allowed to swarm nattjrally, very often they will settle 

 high up on the trunks of trees or away out on Hmbs and it is no small task 

 to remove them from such inconvenient places to hive them ; and many times 

 they are not removed at all, but allowed to go to the woods. 



Many large vigorous swarms have been lost in this way which could have 

 been easily, quickly, and safely removed from their settling-place and saved. 

 No apiary where bees are allowed to swarm naturally should be without one ; 

 and even where they are settled low or conveniently, nothing is better to 

 remove them with. 



No one but those who have used a bee-tent knows how useful they are 

 about the apiary. Should a comb melt down in a hive, robbers take to one, 

 or an accident happens, nothing could be done better than to set a tent over 

 them. Very often it is handy to set over honey or to feed about the apiary; 

 and it is often used to set over a colony to do certain work. 



QUEEN-CELL PROTECTORS. 



In every apiary where queen-rearing is practiced or requeening done, 

 queen-cell protectors are indispensable. They are to protect the queen-cells 

 after they have been removed from the comb, and distributed over the apiary 

 until the young queens emerge from them. By the use of these, any bee- 

 keeper can keep his stock of bees from running down after good blood has 

 been introduced into his apiary. Or by the use of them he can introduce good 

 blood into all colonies from one good breeding queen. 



BEE-FEEDERS. 



In every apiary some colony needs feeding at certain times; and if not 

 done with great care robbing will set in, and the result will be that some 

 colonies will be eaten out by robbing bees, and be lost. By the use of these 

 feeders any colony in the apiary can be fed syrup until the bees have stored 

 as much as they need, without starting robbing. A few feeders (according 

 to the size of the ajpiary) should be included in each order for bee-supplies. 



I have now given a list of the leading implements used in modern bee- 

 keeping, and their usage ; and every well-regulated apiary should be supplied 

 with them, for they go to make up modern bee-keeping, and are great labor- 

 saving devices. The prices of many of them are insignificant, and that is true 



