. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 382 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 1, 1875. and two and a quarter inclies wide, having a lid which slides in grooves at either end of the hox. The interior is divided lengthwaj's (by a piece of perfoi-ated zinc) into two compartments, one of which (the front) is an inch and a quarter wide, and the other (the back) three- quarters of an inch only. The front compart- ment, which is intended for the reception of the new queen and her courtiers, has a square hole at the bottom, which is covered with a moveable strip of perforated zinc sliding
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 382 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. [March 1, 1875. and two and a quarter inclies wide, having a lid which slides in grooves at either end of the hox. The interior is divided lengthwaj's (by a piece of perfoi-ated zinc) into two compartments, one of which (the front) is an inch and a quarter wide, and the other (the back) three- quarters of an inch only. The front compart- ment, which is intended for the reception of the new queen and her courtiers, has a square hole at the bottom, which is covered with a moveable strip of perforated zinc sliding in grooves, by means of which her majesty may be introduced to the personal acquaintance of her new sub- jects when the proper time arrives. The back compartment is oj)en at the bottom, and is in- tended as a receptacle for the queen to be de- throned, her unfortunate majesty being confined. therein in a small zinc or wire cage from which she cannot escape. ' A Lanarkshire Bee-keeper' in his own description says :—' When a queen is to be substituted, place the stranger queen with a few workers in the wide space (front) and the queen to be dethroned in the loose cage on the other side, (to prevent the queens at- tacking each other through the zinc the side of the loose cage placed next to the zinc partition has stout paper pasted on it). Draw a slide in the stock hive and place the box over the opening, when the bees will immediately come up into the narrow compartment (the back) to attend upon their queeui In a short time the strange queen will have in some degree acquired the odour of the hive ; the caged queen may now be removed and the bees will immediately at- tend upon the stranger whose liberation must be determined by watching the operations of the bees through the glass, and may be effected by gently drawing the zinc slide which covers the hole in the bottom of her compartment.' This method has been in operation for more than twenty years ! The box is also intended t
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