Gleanings in bee culture . MARCH 15, 1913 187. Bankstons nursery cage. Each compartment has room for a small piece of comb filled with honey. as long- as there is a light in the same , Dec. 24, while the snow is fall-ing fast outside, the bees are flying andhiunming in their cage as though it wereJune instead of , Ct. A NEW NURSERY CAGE BY C. B. BANKSTON About 22 years ago theie came into usewhat was known as the Alley nursen- cage was simply a little square blockof wood with one large hole in the middle,and two half-inch holes in one end. Oneof the small
Gleanings in bee culture . MARCH 15, 1913 187. Bankstons nursery cage. Each compartment has room for a small piece of comb filled with honey. as long- as there is a light in the same , Dec. 24, while the snow is fall-ing fast outside, the bees are flying andhiunming in their cage as though it wereJune instead of , Ct. A NEW NURSERY CAGE BY C. B. BANKSTON About 22 years ago theie came into usewhat was known as the Alley nursen- cage was simply a little square blockof wood with one large hole in the middle,and two half-inch holes in one end. Oneof the small holes was for a sponge to con-tain honey for the young or old queen toeat. The other was for the insertion of thequeen-cell. Twenty of the cages just fitinside of a Langstroth brood-frame. We used this cage for many years. Itbeat the old lamp uui-sery, but it had manyfaults. The sponge would get dry, so thattlie queens would starve. A great manywould hatch with crippled wings or wereotherwise deformed. I tried different makes of cages, and f
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