. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 44 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER March The U. D. Cage.—Continued. room for this work the plugs should tx' one inch apart, or the tins may be left out atfirst to be put in place after the cells are capped, as one pleases. Asa nursery this cage fills the bill— seventy-five queens are accommodated in a single frame; laying oV virgin, they will be as well cared for by the bees as though each queen were in a separate hive by herself. I have had as high as two hundred queens in a single nucleus; and this winter I shall undertake to winter seventy-five queens
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 44 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER March The U. D. Cage.—Continued. room for this work the plugs should tx' one inch apart, or the tins may be left out atfirst to be put in place after the cells are capped, as one pleases. Asa nursery this cage fills the bill— seventy-five queens are accommodated in a single frame; laying oV virgin, they will be as well cared for by the bees as though each queen were in a separate hive by herself. I have had as high as two hundred queens in a single nucleus; and this winter I shall undertake to winter seventy-five queens to the colony, to get even with my friends in the South, who have heretofore led me sixty days on account of location. '' S W A RTHMORE. ?' .Swarthmore, Pa., Oct. I'.tOO. A SETTING BEES FROM CELLAR ETC. BY a. M. DOOLITTLE. wishes me to tell in The American Bee- keeper how I set the bees from the,cellar and also if I set each colony on the same stand it occupied the fall pre- vi(jus. Answering the last question first. I will say that it is supposed by many that when the bees are set from the cel- lar each colony must occupy the exact position or stand that they did the sum- mer previous, or else many bees will be lost by going back to their former loca- tion. Those who are at all familiar with bees know that the young bee. when it comes out of the hive for the first time, marks its location by turning its head toward the hive upon taking wing, when it commences flying in front of the hive in circles, each circle growinsr larger as it Through the courtesy of Glean- ings in Bee-culture, in which jour- nal the U. D. cage was previously ] Ig described, we are permitted to present an excellent illustration of its construction. LTpon receipt of a sample cage, which "Swarth- more'' sent for inspection, we had some misgivings as to the advisa- bility of confining virgin queens with perforated zinc ; and accord- ingly wrote " Swarthmore" asking o for his
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