The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . me the bees are ready to accept her, in 99cases out of 100. For an introducing-cage we could not askfor any thing better; but there was onegreat ol)jection to it, and that was, that itwas not a very good mailing-cage. From 10to 25 per cent of the queens would far! toarrive at their destination alive. This wasto
The ABC of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, honey, hives, implements, honey-plants, etc., facts gleaned from the experience of thousands of bee keepers all over our land, and afterward verified by practical work in our own apiary . me the bees are ready to accept her, in 99cases out of 100. For an introducing-cage we could not askfor any thing better; but there was onegreat ol)jection to it, and that was, that itwas not a very good mailing-cage. From 10to 25 per cent of the queens would far! toarrive at their destination alive. This wastoo large a percentage to lose. The tioublewas, the ( ompartment shown in the engrav-ing above, 2 inches in diameter, was toolarge, and the tin slide was cold, and a poorplace for bees to cling to during the in the m;iils. Every time themail-bag was thrown out of the car, thebets in the cage would receive quite a con-cussion, especially those that happen to bestanding upon the tin. The remedy, then,seems to be to do away with the tin slide,and reduce the size of the hole to about aninch or less in diameter, and, to maintainsufficient capacity, increase the number ofholes. This was very successfully acc(.m-plished in the I3enton cage, a cut of whichis appended comb, as shown in the accom])anyiug en-graving, the bees having been previously THE BENTON SHIPPING AND MAILINGCAGE. This cage was first introduced to the pub-li( in 1S88 by Frank Benton, formerly ofMunich, Germany, and was devised by himsolely for the purpose of sending queensacross the ocean to the United .states by INTRODUCING QUEENS. 1S7 INTRODUCING QUEENS. mail; and, furthermore, it is used l)y himfor that piarpose with remarkable originally made by him it could not beused for introducing: liut we have modifiedit, as will prtseutly be explained, for thatl>urp()se. The queen breeders of this coun-try have now tested it for long distances inshipping queens. In our queen-breedingdepartm
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