Gleanings in bee culture . r theblack queen, when, right before my eyes, there shewas. I did not like to kill her, so I took out twoframes of sealed brood, and what bees were on, andstarted a nuclei. They ha-\c a nice lot of sealedbrood now, which will hatch out in three or fourdays. In introducing I took the Italian, and drewopen the door. She passed out on the comb, which Iwas holding in my hand, and my smoker in the oth-er. They were soon in the act of taking her to partsunknown, when I gave them a little smoke, whenthey let go. 1 did so a couple of times, when theylet her pass as an old fr
Gleanings in bee culture . r theblack queen, when, right before my eyes, there shewas. I did not like to kill her, so I took out twoframes of sealed brood, and what bees were on, andstarted a nuclei. They ha-\c a nice lot of sealedbrood now, which will hatch out in three or fourdays. In introducing I took the Italian, and drewopen the door. She passed out on the comb, which Iwas holding in my hand, and my smoker in the oth-er. They were soon in the act of taking her to partsunknown, when I gave them a little smoke, whenthey let go. 1 did so a couple of times, when theylet her pass as an old friend. Will Ellis. St. Davids, Ont., Can., June 3, 1S81. Fl RTUER BHPROVEiTIEATS IN THEFEET CAGE. ^[pj VEN a very little improvement is quiteJTO an item, in an article tised in the apia-ry as much as queen-cages are now;and although the cage below differs but lit-tle from the one we pictured recently, it hasfeatures that make it worth while to be il-lustrated again. The first of these is thegroove for holding the tin LATEST IMPROVED FEET CAGE. Instead of making the groove near thecorner, and slanting outward, we now makethem as you see, right on the corner, slant-ing in toward the center of the block. Thetiji slide is simply folded over to an acuteinstead of obtuse angle. This improvement was made by two friends at just about thesame time, for both cages came in the samemail. One cage was from our old friend Oli-ver Foster, and the otlier I have had themisfortune to mislay. The other feature isthe little tin water-bottle which you see. Adescription of this will also be found on page397. These little bottles are made bv rollingtaggers tin on a steel rod, say about the sizeof a round lead-pencil, and putting a cap oneach end. The size should be just as largoas it can be and still let a bee pass over itfreely without getting fast between it andthe wire cloth. Although this water-bottleis needed only for long distances, queens aremuch safer with it, and they seem to standthe
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