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PLEASUBABLE BEE-KEEPING. 



of which was fixed, over a small hole, a perforated 

 zinc or wire tube. The super to be cleared was 

 placed in the box from which the bees left by the 

 tube and did not return. In 1890 a modified form of 

 this device was advised by Mr. Harbordt for fixing 

 over the ventilation hole in the roof, as a means of 

 exit for the bees, and now the cone is greatly valued 

 as a means of ridding supers of bees. It is equally 

 effective whether used on a box or over the ventilating 

 hole in the roof of the hive. 



When a box is used a hole is needed in the lid abou.t 



Fig. 47. 



6 inches in diameter, and another in the side about 

 1 inch in diameter. Over the latter the cone is tacked 

 with small nails. This cone, made of finely perforated 

 zinc, is 3J inches long, 2 inches wide at one end, and 

 J inch at the other. The super to be cleared of bees 

 is then placed over the hole in the lid, and if the bee- 

 keeper will see that no bees can leave except by 

 passing down into the box, and thence out by the 

 cone, no anxiety need be felt as to the result. In a 

 very short time all the bees will have left by the exit 

 provided, and have returned to their own hive. 



