. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. CBIvL-CUPS AND FINISHED CKI^ OF QUKEN HXCI,UDING METAL. Stanley Queen Incubator and Brooder An Arrangement that Allows the Bees Access to the Cells and Queens at all Titnes. One of the greatest objections urged against a lamp-nursery, or any kind of a nursery where bees are hatched away from the bees, is that the cells and their inmates are robbed of the actual care of the bees. When the bees have access to a cell, and the time ap- proaches for the queen to emerge, the wax over the point is pared, and, as the queen cuts an opening through
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. CBIvL-CUPS AND FINISHED CKI^ OF QUKEN HXCI,UDING METAL. Stanley Queen Incubator and Brooder An Arrangement that Allows the Bees Access to the Cells and Queens at all Titnes. One of the greatest objections urged against a lamp-nursery, or any kind of a nursery where bees are hatched away from the bees, is that the cells and their inmates are robbed of the actual care of the bees. When the bees have access to a cell, and the time ap- proaches for the queen to emerge, the wax over the point is pared, and, as the queen cuts an opening through the cell, and thrusts out her tongue, she is fed and cheered in her efforts to leave the cell. A queen hatched away from the bees loses all of this food, cheer, and comradeship; and, until intro- duced to a nucleus, or full colony, has not the natural food that she would secure were she among the bees. All of these objections are overcome by an invention of Mr. Arthur Stanley, of Lee Co., Ills. Mr. Stanley makes the cell-cups accord- ing to the directions given in Mr. Doolittle's "Scientific Queen-Rearing," sticking the base of each cell to a No. 13 gun-wad. By the use of melted wax these wads, with the cell at- tached, are stuck, at proper intervals, to a strip of wood exactly the length of the inside width of a Langstroth brood-frame. Two (Patent Applied for.) wire staples driven into the inside of each end-bar, slide into slots cut in the ends of the cell-bars, and hold them in position. The process of transferring larv:p to the cells, getting the cells built, etc.,have all l>een described in the books and journals, and need not be repeated here. When the cells are sealed they may be picked off the bar (still attached to the gun-wads) ; and right here is where the special features of the Stanley pro- cess steps in. Each cell, as it is removed, is slipped into a little cylindrical cage, made of queen-excluding zinc, the cage being about two inches long, and of su
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