Vol. XIV 



NOVEMBER, 1904. 



No. II 



A QUEEN RESTRAINER. 



An Interesting Article With a Laughable Episode. 



By D. D. Alley. 



HE FOLLOWING is, I believe, a the queen excluder in its new position, 

 new use for the perforated zinc beconies a queen restrainer. The queen 

 honey-board, which in combi- being unable to pass through, while the 

 don with a modiified form of the workers have perfect freedom of ac- 

 ley Queen Trap will control swarm- tion throughout the entire surface of 



the honey-board and the original en- 

 Ls commonly used the honey board trance. 



placed between the brood chamber In the double- walled hives, as usu- 

 d the super. This prevents the queen ally constructed, the entrance is cut 



j Showing Zinc Excluder. 



>m going into the upper story of the 



I 'e and depositing her eggs where 



, ij are not wanted. In other words, 



i honey-board is a queen excluder. 



*^ we place the honey-board between 



, s bottom-board and the brood cham- 



\ ', in that style of hive in which the 



' Tance is made by the raised rab- 



L on the sides of the bottom-board, 



With Trap in Position. 



out in the body. As the honey-board 

 ife smaller than the outside dimensions 

 of these hives, in order to make it 

 shiit-shape in its new position (though 

 not absolutely necessary in our ex- 

 periment), we must broaden and 

 lengthen its frame in order to make 

 it come out flush with the hive body. 

 This we can easily do with a few 



