NATURAL INCREASE. 
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the finger. If pinching the queen be dreaded, let her 
fly on a window pane, with three or four of her bees, 
until the latter caress and feed her, when the scissors 
may be applied ; but the risk remains that she, upon 
the touch of the steel, may raise her leg, and lose 
more than was intended. 
We have as yet by no means exhausted the catalogue 
of methods intended, like the foregoing, to minimise 
the trouble, disappointment, and loss, associated so 
Fig. 41.— (^l'een-trap, or Swarm-arrestor (Scale, i). 
A, Section— e, Knti-ance ; qe, qe, Queen-excluder Zinc ; Wire Window ; c. Wire 
Cone, with opening above ; qc. Queen Chamber. B, I’erspective View — 
Letterings as before. 
frequently with natural swarming. Much ingenuity 
has been exhibited in devising plans for luring the 
queen about to depart, into imprisonment, so that 
she and the bees may be secured without difficulty. 
Although none of these can be recommended as 
undoubted successes, yet they cannot be altogether 
omitted from a treatise like the present. There is a 
common likeness about these queen-traps, or swarm- 
arrestors, but that used (Fig. 41) by Mr. Henry Alley, 
