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Show SIEVE FOR HIVE ENTRANCES Simple Device May Be Mads of Piece of Zinc Excluder, Strips of Wood and Cardboard. The queen-sieve recently described by J. P. Brumfleld has suggested what I think Is a simpler one. I fashioned a piece of zinc excluder, 10 by 14 Inches, to stripB of wood by inch on the two sides and one end; then I tacked a very thin piece of board or cardboard to the other aid of the wood and one or two small supports in the center to keep the board and zinc apart, says a writer in the Gleanings Glean-ings in Bee Culture. I have this un- -Zft CAflOBOAftO . Queen-Finding Sieve. der the brood-frames so that it is the only entrance to the hive. When the bees are shaken on a sheet in front of the hive they must enter through the ieve, and the queen will be secured. No sharp lookout has to be kept; in fact, none at all, for whether one examines ex-amines the sieve in 15 or 20 minutes, which is the usual time for them to go in, or five hours later, as I did with the last hive, the queen Is sure to be In the sieve. All I have to do is to put in the sieve, shake the bees, and let them take their time to go in, and the queen is surely safe. |