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A MANUAL OF BEE-KEEPING. 



bridge which may be fitted to hives of a circular shape, 

 yet, when reversed, will be found equally serviceable for 

 plane-fronted hives. The trap is fixed to the hive by 

 the piece of zinc, No. 6, which is screwed to the floor- 

 board, and is held up by a support from the ground or 

 by two light strips of wood which are thrust under the 

 floor-board and catch two nails or pins in its sides. 



There are several other Drone-traps in use, but the 

 principle of all is the same, i. e. to give the Workers free 

 egress and ingress, but the Drones only the former. 

 Workers can pass through an aperture 3-i6ths of an inch 

 in diameter ; Drones cannot. 



What are generally known as Bee-trs.'^s, in contradis- 

 tinction to Drone-tra.^s, are intended principally for 

 clearing supers of the Bees when taken off the hive. 



We will suppose the Bee-master has been successful, 

 and finds on his hive a well-filled super ; now comes the 



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operation of removing it, and ridding it of the bees. 

 Many people find this last a formidable job, and some- 

 times make such a bungle of it that robbers are at- 

 tracted, to the loss of honey and beauty. My friend 

 Mr. Cheshire suggested a very simple and inexpensive 

 contrivance, which will be found very useful : he styles it 

 the five-pin Bee-trap. On this the Rev. J. L. Zabriskie 

 has made an improvement, which I will now describe. 

 The drawings are from the ' Bee-keepers' Magazine/ of 

 New York. 



