Gleanings in bee culture . will be noticed little cake-lins placed on top of the cage at one orboth ends. These are filled with ordinaryqueen-cage candy made by mixing powderedsugar and honey that has been thoroughlysterilized, and then kneaded into a stiffdough. These cake-tins are filled level fullof the candy, inverted, and nailed over alongitudinal slit in the top. See Fig. larger-sized cages require, of course,more candy and larger containers, and allof them require waterin hot weather. HOW TO PUT BEES INTOTHE CAGES. There has been a raftof inquiries as to hoivwe get the bees intoth
Gleanings in bee culture . will be noticed little cake-lins placed on top of the cage at one orboth ends. These are filled with ordinaryqueen-cage candy made by mixing powderedsugar and honey that has been thoroughlysterilized, and then kneaded into a stiffdough. These cake-tins are filled level fullof the candy, inverted, and nailed over alongitudinal slit in the top. See Fig. larger-sized cages require, of course,more candy and larger containers, and allof them require waterin hot weather. HOW TO PUT BEES INTOTHE CAGES. There has been a raftof inquiries as to hoivwe get the bees intothese pound cages. Thisis a very simple suppose we are go-ing to put up a two-pound package of take a package ofsuitable size, put it on apair of scales having anadjustable dial to takeoff the tare. Then weset the pointer back tozero. We now open ahive wliich the recordsshow is capable of fill-ing this order, and yetleave sufficient bees totake care of the next find the framethe cjueen is on, and. Fig. 4.—Two-pound size, new style, without combs. ;i set it down beside the hive. We now takea position as shown in Fig. 7, with a spe-cially constructed funnel having a large ob-long top and a small contracted opening atthe bottom just large enough to insert inone of the round holes in the top of thecage. The frame is inserted in the funnelas shoAvn, and given one quick shake, dis-lodging four-fifths of the bees. As the in-side of the funnel is smooth, the bees slideright down easily into the cage. Anotherframe is shaken in like manner; and whenthe pointer on the scales registers twoliounds, exclusive of the tare taken off, the
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