. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. I fasten a tube of wood or tin ^ inch in diameter, and two inches long, which is filled with Good candy, for the bees to eat out and liberate the queen. I use this cage altogether in my apiary, for chang- ing laying queens from one hive to another. I kill my old queens when they are two years old, and in- troduce young laying queens in their places. My practice is to go to the nucleus havingthe young lay- ing queen; lift out the comb
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. I fasten a tube of wood or tin ^ inch in diameter, and two inches long, which is filled with Good candy, for the bees to eat out and liberate the queen. I use this cage altogether in my apiary, for chang- ing laying queens from one hive to another. I kill my old queens when they are two years old, and in- troduce young laying queens in their places. My practice is to go to the nucleus havingthe young lay- ing queen; lift out the comb with the queen on, and press one of these cages into the comb over the queen, and what bees may be aroiuid her. Carry this comb to the hive which held the old queen. After finding and killing her place the comb with the young queen caged on it in the center of the hive, taking one comb from the hive back to the nucleus. In a week I go and take the cage out and find the young queen laying. When I receive a valuable queen from a distance I liberate her at once on a comb of hatching brood, with some young bees; and when she commences to lay I introduce her as above. ^ Fillmore, Cal., Oct. 21. J. F. McIntyre. A cage that is very popular with many bee-keepers, and somewhat similar to the foregoing, is shown in the two illustrations 10 next following. From a piece of wire cloth perhaps 6 inches square a piece U inches is cut out of each corner, as shown in Fig. 2. Several strands of wire are then raveled out, and it is then folded as shown in Fig. Tic-a. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Root, A. I. (Amos Ives), 1839-1923; Root, E. R. (Ernest Rob), 1862-1953. Medina, Ohio, The A. I. Root Company
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