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BEES AND BEE-KEEPING. 
of Mass., U.S.A., may suit our purpose, as illustrating 
the general plan followed. It is placed before the 
mouth of a hive from which a swarm may be expected, 
when the bees pass in at drawn on by the light 
streaming through the queen-excluder (y^), through 
which they readily escape, and by which they make 
their return. Should a swarm issue, the bees will 
suffer but little impediment, while the queen, failing to 
gain her liberty at the excluder, will try any opening 
that she may discover, and so possibly pass up a 
cone (c. A), of coarse wire cloth, freely lighted by 
a wire window (w), and by the openings in the 
excluder zinc {qe) above it. Having passed out of 
the cone, into the queen chamber (yc), she will never 
discover how to return to the hive. Previous ex- 
planations now apply. Hives being changed, “ the 
arrestor” may be stood before the front of the empty 
one, the side .$• preferably downwards, and the queen- 
excluder (y^') towards the hive mouth, when the 
returning bees will gather upon it. Withdrawing 
the zinc half an inch or so will give the bees access 
to the queen, and, ere long, all may be expected to 
take possession of the hive. Drones, if numerous, 
will much interfere, and the queen may possibly fail 
to find the cones, of which there are only two; while 
the considerable alteration in the position of the 
entrance, suddenly made when the “arrestor” is placed 
in situ, not a little troubles the returning workers. 
Mr. Howard improves upon Alleyns idea by giving 
the queen-excluder [cqe, A, Fig. 42) an arched form. 
The bees enter at te, the workers passing the 
excluder at once, and the drones or queen struggling 
