From the Ncw.England Farmer
{"newspaper_name": "The Wilmingtonian, and Delaware register.", "edition": "01", "page": "p4", "byline": "PRESERVATION oFBEEs."}
According to my promise, send you my
new method of securing Bees against heir
destructive enemy, the Bee-IMfier. Hav-
ing tried with but partial success various
means which had seen recommended in
newspapers and other publications. | resolv-
ed to ascertain in the first place, the manner
in which the Miller does her mischief; and
then to invent some method to prevent it,
BY careful observation and experiment
found that the Miller does not appear about
the apiary till evening twilight,-that with
increasing she approaches the hives
a night comes on,-and, allured by the mel
lif1uous odour which proceeds from the
mouth Of the hive, she approaches nearer
lowering over the bees, till having so much
terrified them as to induce them to surren-
der the passage, she enters the hive. ! as
certained also, that the Miller not only de-
posts her eggs in the hive, from which pro-
ceeds the larvn or caterpillar, but also feasts
on the honer; thus threatening destruction to
the Bees, both by propagating her larvG and
by her robbery.


Having discovered these facts, proceed
ed to invent remedy for the evil. The
circumstances, that the Miller does not ap-
proach the hive till the Bees have returned
from their labor, and that she enters the
mouth of the hive, forcing her way to the
very treasury of the kingdom, suggested the
following experiment.


attached . board to the lower edge Of
the plank on which my hives are placed, SO
wide as to leave space of 10 or IL inches.
that the Bees might have sufficient room
when they hang on the outside of the hive.
made the apiray tight on all sides except
the front, and extending the boards on the
front from the top down, leaving space of
10 inches open at the bottom, for the en-
trance of the Bees. At the lower edge of
the front, attached frame extending the
whole length of the front, and so far forward
as when let down by means of hinges at the
upper edge, the lower edge or side of the
frame would rest OH the fore edge of the
board attached as before mentioned, at the
bottom of the plank. On this frame nail
ed a piece Of canvass, extending over the
whole of it, so that the frame being let down,
the interior part of the apiary is entirely en-
closed. Thus is every Miller or Meth en-
tirely excluded. prefer piece of Canvass
on an open frame for the lid, to d BOARD, for
two reasons:--as the canvass affords pas
sage both for light and the air, it does not
disturb the Bees by a sudden transition from
twilight to perfect darkness when closed
at evening, or from darkness to daylight
when opened inthe morning; and al the same
time affords the Bees sufficient air for yenti
lntion and respiration.


Since have. attempted full description
Of my plan, / will not omit mentioning the
means by which the lid is opened and Shut.
Remcmberthat the Lids suspended by hing
es at the end which isuppermost when clos
ed. AT the top of my apiary fastened a
strip Of board Wy means of hinge, M such