. 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. INTKODUCIKG. 289 INTEODUCING. We copy its manner of construction from Dr. Miller's own words: Take a block 3 inches long-, Va, wide, and % thick; two blocks 1 inch by {s^%; two pieces of tin about an inch square; a piece of wire clotli 4!/4x3%: two pieces of fine wire about 9 inches long, and four small wire nails }4 or % long. That's the bill of ma- terial. Lay down the two small blocks parallel, % of an inch apart, one piece of tin
. 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. INTKODUCIKG. 289 INTEODUCING. We copy its manner of construction from Dr. Miller's own words: Take a block 3 inches long-, Va, wide, and % thick; two blocks 1 inch by {s^%; two pieces of tin about an inch square; a piece of wire clotli 4!/4x3%: two pieces of fine wire about 9 inches long, and four small wire nails }4 or % long. That's the bill of ma- terial. Lay down the two small blocks parallel, % of an inch apart, one piece of tin under, and one over them. Nail together and clinch. These two blocks, being % inch apart, make the hole to fill with Good candy, through which the queen is liberated Another feature of this cage, of great im- portance to beginners, is as a queen-catcher. It can be put down over the queen after the wooden slide is removed, and when she crawls upward the plug is replaced. m'intyre's cage. Another excellent introducing - cage is the one devised by J. F. Mclntyre. How it is managed, we copy from Mr. Mcln- tyre's article in Gleanings in Bee Culture, page 880, 1890 : I take a piece of wire cloth 5K inches square, cut little pieces % of an inch square out of each corner^ and bend the four sides at right angles, making a box 4 inches square and ?£ inch deep. Tn one corner. I fasten a tube of wood or tin ^ inch in diameter, and two inches long, which is filled with Good candy, for the bees to eat out and liberate the queen. I use this cage altogether in my apiary, for chang- ing laying queens from one hive to another. I kill my old queens when they are two years old, and in- troduce young laying queens in their places. My practice is to go to the nucleus havingthe young lay- ing queen; lift out the comb with the queen on, and press one of these cages into the comb over the queen, and what bees may be aroiuid her. Carry this comb to the hive which held the old queen. After finding and
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