. 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. INTRODUCING. 287 INTRODUCING. forations. The other hole (that is, at the candy end) is covered over with a piece of pasteboard perforated by a line of holes run-. BENTON MAILING-CAGE. Postage on tins cage is one cent. A larger size for longer distances, as sJiown below, requires two cents. ning through the center. The object of these perforations is to give the bees an op- portunity to taste the candy through the holes of the pastebo
. 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. INTRODUCING. 287 INTRODUCING. forations. The other hole (that is, at the candy end) is covered over with a piece of pasteboard perforated by a line of holes run-. BENTON MAILING-CAGE. Postage on tins cage is one cent. A larger size for longer distances, as sJiown below, requires two cents. ning through the center. The object of these perforations is to give the bees an op- portunity to taste the candy through the holes of the pasteboard; and once having gotten a sip they will gnaw the holes larger, and finally eat away the pasteboard en- tirely. Very often, after the cage has been through the mails, and been on the journey for several days, the bees in the cage will have con- sumed two - thirds or three - fourths of the candy. If those in the hive to which the queen is to be introduced gain access to the candy di- rect they would eat out what little there is of il in five or six hours, lib- erate the queen, and probably kill her. In order to accomplish in- troduction safely the cage sliould be^orTthe frames (where the bees can get acquainted with the queen) for at least 24 hours, and longer wherever practicable. As it takes anywhere from 12 to 24 hours for the bees to gnaw away the pasteboard before they can get at the can- dy, and from 6 to 24 hours to eat out the candy, we are assured of at least 18 hours before the bees can release their new mother; and generally the time is longer — anywhere from 24 to 48 hours. The pasteboard has another advantage, in that it makes the introduction entirely auto- matic. The one who receives the queen pries off the cover protecting the wire cloth, and then by the directions which he reads on the reverse side of this cover he learns that all he has to do is to lay the cage wire clotli down over the space between two brood-frames of the queenless colony, and the bees d
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