. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. 68 BEES FOE PLEASURE AND PEOI'IT. width, to allow good ventilation and free passage-way for the bees. During the summer nuclei can be formed and young queens reared, to supersede old ones at the end of the season, if necessary. Introducing Queens. There are many different ways of introducing a new queen to a stock, but they may all be classed under two head^—viz., " Caging " and " Direct ; Whichever method we adopt, one t
. Bees for pleasure and profit; a guide to the manipulation of bees, the production of honey, and the general management of the apiary. Bees. 68 BEES FOE PLEASURE AND PEOI'IT. width, to allow good ventilation and free passage-way for the bees. During the summer nuclei can be formed and young queens reared, to supersede old ones at the end of the season, if necessary. Introducing Queens. There are many different ways of introducing a new queen to a stock, but they may all be classed under two head^—viz., " Caging " and " Direct ; Whichever method we adopt, one thing is necessary: we must remove the old queen before we attempt to introduce the new one. The two most popular cages in this country, are probably the " Pipe cover cage" and the "Raynor ; The pipe cover cage (fig. 37, a). Fig. ST.—A, inierioan Pipe Cover Cage ; B, Eaynor Queen Cage. is used in the following way:—Having placed the queen in it, we put a piece of cardboard underneath, and carry it to the hive, from the centre of which we take a frame, and placing the cage over some cells containing unsealed honey, we with- draw the card, and press the cage firmly down into the comb as far as the mid-rib. A few newly hatched workers from the hive may be put in the cage with the queen. After forty-eight hours we may ngain go to the hive, and if the bees show no hostility to the queen, we may release her ; but if they are thickly clustered round the cage, bending up their bodies in their attempts to sting her through the wires, she must remain caged for twenty-four hours more, or until the bees become reconciled to her. If, just after the queen is released, the bees should " ball" her—, form in a thick cluster, about the size of a walnut, around her—doing their utmost to get at and sting her, they must immediately be. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readab
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