. The bee-keepers' guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. Introducing Queens. 197 half inch hn each side, and weave in the ends of the wires, forming a tube the size of the finger. We now have only to put the queen in the tube and pinch the ends together, and the queen is caged. The cage containing the queen should be Queen Cage. â , inserted between two adjacent combs containing. honey, each of which will touch it. The queen can thus sip honey as she needs it. If we fear the queen may not be able to sip the honey through the meshes of the wire, we may dip a piece of clean sponge in &quo
. The bee-keepers' guide; or, Manual of the apiary. Bees. Introducing Queens. 197 half inch hn each side, and weave in the ends of the wires, forming a tube the size of the finger. We now have only to put the queen in the tube and pinch the ends together, and the queen is caged. The cage containing the queen should be Queen Cage. â , inserted between two adjacent combs containing. honey, each of which will touch it. The queen can thus sip honey as she needs it. If we fear the queen may not be able to sip the honey through the meshes of the wire, we may dip a piece of clean sponge in "honey and insert it in the upper end of the cage before we compress this end. This will furnish the queen with the needed food. In forty-eight hours we again open the hive, after a thorough smoking, and also the cage, which is easily done by pressing the upper end at right angles to the di- rection of the pressure when we closed it. In doing this do not remove the cage. Now keep watch, and if, as the bees en- ter the cage or as the queen emerges, the bees attack her, secure her immediately and re-cage her for another forty-eight hours. I have introduced many queens in this manner, and have very rarely been unsuccessful. At such times if the queen is not well received by the bees, then she is "balled," as it is termed. By the expression "balling the queen," we mean that the work- er bees press about her in a compact cluster, so as to form a real live ball as large as a good sized peach. Here the queen is held till she dies. By smoking the ball or throwing it into water the queen may be speedily liberated. Mr. Dadant stops the cage with a plug of wood (Fig. 84), and when he goes to liberate the queen replaces the wooden stopple with one of comb, and leaves the bees to liberate the queen by eating out the comb. Mr. Betsinger uses a larger cage, open at one end, which is pressed against the comb till the mouth of the cage reaches the middle of it. If I unders
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