Show 1 SIFT BEES TO FIND QUEEN only preparation necessary a to fix up wood frame excluder alth thin wood strip i among all tho methods proposed tor finding the dueon there la none more nearly certain than sifting tho method ot doing it 1 about as simple and easy as can be fix up a wood frame zinc queen excluder w ath a thin three inch wood strip to be attached under one long side of the frame so as to close that much of the perforations measuring from the outside of the frame this la the only extra prepa ration necessary writes keep in the gleanings in bee culture now lift the hive body containing the colony to be sifted off its bottom board and set an empty body in its place lay the prepared excluder on this empty body having the edge of the three inch strip against the out elde of the body this leaves an open space along the opposite side wide enough to pass a brood frame through easily set the hive body containing the brood frames and bees upon the excluder exactly remove the outside frame from each side shaking and brushing the bees back upon the remaining frames set one of these frames aside and pt the other into the body below through the opening I 1 efura mentioned and push it along on the rabbets out of the way now icove the brood frames in a mass over to the hive side next to the opening mentioned then beginning with the frame furthest from tho said shake and brush the bees off and ofin on the excluder one frame lifter another putting each as clear cd down into the under body push ing each and the preceding frames along out of the way to admit the last of all pat in the frame previously set aside it care Is used the brood nest will be transferred from one body to the other without in any way changing the arrangement 0 the frames the smoker should now be usety vry moderately to drive ther bee own sufficiently to see the queen if a ie there it Is not necessary to shake drive or smoke the few re ra aning bees just set the body to one side and they will soon leave it there is any simpler way to sift for the queen let know it |