1905 



GLEANINGS IN CEE CULTURE. 



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center from top to bottom, so that, by turn- 

 ing the supporting-block, a range of adjust- 

 rnent of one-fourth of an inch up or down is 

 given. A delicate focusing adjustment is 

 provided by a screw with a range of three- 

 fourths of an inch. This lens shows the 

 heads and proboscides of the feeding bees 

 in a wonderfully interesting manner. 



The bottom of the feeder is provided with 

 slot and slide as an escape device, previous- 

 ly described, and the whole is easily taken 

 from the hive by the slides and carried to a 

 window for closer observation, or it may be 

 passed around to members of a class or to 

 visitors. 



Artifical Feeding. — Between this magnif y- 

 ing-feeder and the end of the hive which has 

 the mouth opening there are two jar feeders 



manner op setting before a window, with sash 

 Raised and entrance cut in temporary bar. 



with perforated caps. These are so arrang- 

 ed that one is over each half of the observa- 

 tion chamber. The hive is also provided 

 with a Doolittle division-board feeder that 

 may be placed in the main hive, in either 

 observation chamber, or in the one or two 

 removable hives. From these last the cover 

 may be taken off and the feeder put in 

 without the escape of bees, provided the 

 sliding cover is previously pushed in half 

 way, so that the portable hive is cleared 

 through the Porter escape. 



Flying Cage and Obs^ervation Box Hive. — 

 This attachment, like themagnifying-fetder, 



is not supplied regularly with the hive, but 

 is regarded as an extra. It will be found 

 very serviceable in a variety of experi- 

 ments. Three sides are of glass. The other 

 has non-rustible wire netting. This netting 

 is placed next to the main hive in place of 

 the tube entrance. A long slot through the 

 lower part of the frame matches the mouth 

 opening of the main hive. The purpose of 

 this flying cage is to provide a place in which 

 the bees may fly when the hive is set up m 

 a room away from a window for observa- 

 tion, instruction, or exhibition. This will be 

 found very serviceable for use at fairs, and 

 for temporary exhibition in schools, also for 

 advertising purposes, and when placed with 

 the entire hive in the show-window of a 

 store. 



This cage is hive-size, and takes on the 

 top the regular cover, the feeding-board, 

 with the main hive or supers. At the upper 

 and lower portions are places for feeding. 

 The inside of the hive is regularly fitted 

 with supports for regular frames, or for 

 rustic sticks. In this manner it may be 

 used in imitation of the original bee-trees, 

 the whole being covered with paper, cloth, 

 or other material for making the interior 

 dark. When this covering is removed, the 

 entire inside of the bee-tree with rustic 

 cross-sticks may be readily seen. 



When the cage is not thus used in connec- 

 tion with the main hive it is turned around 

 so as to face in the same direction as the 

 other hive, and both are then side by side at 

 the window, with two tube entrances as two 

 separate hives. A large baseboard is pro- 

 vided for the hives when used in combina- 

 tion. This cage is so designed that it may 

 readily serve many other natural-history 

 purposes. It is unexcelled in convenience as 

 a transforming-cage for lepidoptera or for 

 aquatic insects. For the last- mentioned pur- 

 pose bowls or dishes of water to hold the 

 aquatic specimens are placed in the lower 

 section. 



When used as a larval feeding-cage, pots 

 of earth with growing plants, or broken 

 branches placed in bottles of water which 

 are set in the earth in the pots, may be 

 placed in the lower section. 



The main hive is fitted with the Danzen- 

 baker entrance-stops. The bottom-board is 

 clamped to the main hive by the Van Deusen 

 hive-clamp. 



The alighting-boards of the tube entrances 

 take Alley's queen and drone trap, bee- 

 guards, etc. It is recommended that the 

 Root queen-rearing outfit be purchased in 

 connection with the hive. 



Another very useful accessory is an obser- 

 vation lens five inches in diameter. This lens, 

 and also that of the magnify ing-feeder, are 

 made by The Bausch & Lomb Optical Com- 

 pany, of Rochester, N. Y., and are of the 

 highest type of efficiency and workmanship. 



With the compl-ete hive, the magnifying- 

 feeder, the flying-cage, and observation box 

 hive, the Root queen-rearing outfit, and 

 the observation lens, facilities are afforded 

 for every phase of apiarian observation. 



