and its Economic Management. 121 



The gauged cutting box and the frame saw for. cutting odd 

 combs to fit into sections as hitherto used are shewn as Figs. 

 34 and 35. The blade of the saw is of the thinnest possible 

 material, with very fine teeth. 



Swarm Attachments 



for securing swarms when they issue, were devised by me in 

 the year 1888, and for some years past similar contrivances 

 have been mentioned both in English and foreign journals, 

 though complete satisfaction seems seldom to have been 

 attained by their use. 



I still adhere to my non-swarming plan, or that which helps 

 to restrain bees from the desire to swarm, as being by far the 

 more simple and effectual, but as there are many who for 

 various reasons are unable to control swarming, I illustrate my 

 latest design in Swarm Catchers (Fig. 33), which requires 

 little attention when once in position. 



It is simply the arrangement of my usual swarm preventing 

 chamber under the brood nest, with a floor between having a 

 central opening covered with excluder zinc. The whole front 

 of the lower chamber is covered with excluder zinc, set out 

 i^in., and reaching up to and covering the front of a porch 

 which comes in front of the main entrance. 



The alighting board , has here several inverted cones so 

 inserted that the queen failing to make her way out with the 

 swarm finds a passage into the lower chamber from which she 

 cannot return, and where the bulk of the swarm, after vainly 

 seeking her abroad, re-assemble and go on to work. If allowed 

 to continue there they work in connection with the original 

 force ; but, in this case, all surplus queen cells must be cut 

 out, and the zinc removed from the upper entrance that the 

 young queen remaining may leave for her natural purposes. 



