Gleanings in bee culture . od, or until the honey-flow ceased, one ofthe queens would then be missing. It is not 1510 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Dec. 1 true that queens will not fight after beingfertilized. I have tried many times puttingfrom two to six in a cage; and in nearly eve-ry instance where the queens were thriftyand vigorous they would fight until therewas but one living. When queens are heavywith eggs they usually do not quarrel imme-diately after being caged; but they wont beso friendly after being caged for some would no more risk sending two queens inone cage, or keeping th
Gleanings in bee culture . od, or until the honey-flow ceased, one ofthe queens would then be missing. It is not 1510 GLEANINGS IN BEE CULTURE. Dec. 1 true that queens will not fight after beingfertilized. I have tried many times puttingfrom two to six in a cage; and in nearly eve-ry instance where the queens were thriftyand vigorous they would fight until therewas but one living. When queens are heavywith eggs they usually do not quarrel imme-diately after being caged; but they wont beso friendly after being caged for some would no more risk sending two queens inone cage, or keeping them together, than tokeep two fully matured male hogs in thesame pen; yet there are quite a few cases onrecord where they behaved very Plain, 111. F. X. Arnold. SHIPPING-CASES WITH SLIDING COVERS. In handling shipping-cases of sections forsale I find the cover as at present made veryunsatisfactory, slipping out of place unlessnailed after selling every single section; andfor my own personal use I took two pieces. and nailed on the front and back, each hav-ing a ship-lap as shown. Then the middlepiece is shiplapped, and slides to and fro,forming a tight cover that holds in placehowever much the case is moved about. Although I do not use a wedge in mycases, I found some difiiculty in removingthe first section, but overcame that by put-ting a thick piece of cartridge paper aroundone section, with the ends upward longenough to catch hold of, and lift the sectionout. Directions could be printed on this pa-per. The diiSculty might be overcome byletting the cover run from front to back in-stead of from end to end. Then the wedgecould be removed easily; but the piece of pa-per for lifting out the first section, 1 think,should still be used. H. Fixz Hart. Wetumpka, Ala., April 1. [Your suggestion regarding the construc-tion of the cover of the shipping-case is amost excellent one, and the supply-manufac-turers are urged to adopt the idea. It cer-tainly would be a great conven
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