. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 14 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. QUEEN CAGES. Queen cages of perforated zinc should not be recommended witliont a caveat. Indeed, tlie pro- ]>riety of using them ma_y well be doubted, after weeing the evils that have iVequently resulted tliei'e- ft-ora. Several years ago we liad cages made of tlie material referred to, and so constructed as to allow of tlieir being inserted and suspended between the middle combs. But whilst approving of a form which we found very convenient, we became pre- judiced against the substance, and discarded it alto
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 14 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. QUEEN CAGES. Queen cages of perforated zinc should not be recommended witliont a caveat. Indeed, tlie pro- ]>riety of using them ma_y well be doubted, after weeing the evils that have iVequently resulted tliei'e- ft-ora. Several years ago we liad cages made of tlie material referred to, and so constructed as to allow of tlieir being inserted and suspended between the middle combs. But whilst approving of a form which we found very convenient, we became pre- judiced against the substance, and discarded it altogether. We found it could not be used with safety, unless well rubbed and cleaned ; and as this operation was sometimes neglected, tlie encaged queens were either seriously injured or altogetlier destroyed. The cause, no doubt, was a iioison—- the white rust that gathers upon zinc wlien laid aside for a time after being used.—Qukstioneii. QUEEN CAGES AND UNITING QUEENS. No. 2. As I promised in last month's Journcd to describe ar«l illustrate a very simple and perfect queen cage, that any mere novice can raalce in a few minutes, by simply bending a piece of perforated zinc of the right shape, and although so simjile, no better queen cage has ever been invented and described either in Europe or America. The first queen cage I made, which is described on page 189 of the British Bee Journal, toolc some time to make, and as I constantly had sucli a number of Lignrian queens to unite to common black stocks of bees, I made a number of tliese simple queen cages in ISC,.-). 'J'liey are made of perforated zinc the same as the others, anil measure one and three quarter inches long, one inch wide, and one inch deep ; one side of the cage has an open- ing one inch long and three- eighths of an inch wide, and this is covered with a flat door sliding over it on the inside, with a jiiece of wire fastened to the top of the door, about twelve inches long to draw it up. (See Figure.). When I
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