. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 16, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOUBNAL. 28S introduced is placed, together with a comb of hatching-brood freed from adhering bees, in a wire cloth frame-cage, I found it necessary to construct the cage for the purpose, the simple details of which may interest other readers. It will be understood that the object of the arrangement is that a nucleus of newly- hatched bees shall attach themselves to the only mother they have known, the cage being placed in the centre of a colony, or disposed of otherwise in some place of equally correct temp
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. July 16, 1903.] THE BRITISH BEE JOUBNAL. 28S introduced is placed, together with a comb of hatching-brood freed from adhering bees, in a wire cloth frame-cage, I found it necessary to construct the cage for the purpose, the simple details of which may interest other readers. It will be understood that the object of the arrangement is that a nucleus of newly- hatched bees shall attach themselves to the only mother they have known, the cage being placed in the centre of a colony, or disposed of otherwise in some place of equally correct temperature. The sketch may perhaps make the details clear without much explanation. Two ordi- nary standard frames have each had one side covered with perforated zinc, these frames forming the halves of the cage, which, when placed in contact with the selected frame of. COMB B. HALF CAGE C. 0° IN POSITION D^ INTROOUCINC DOOR ._, E- PLAT H'^O NAIL^ LEATHER Frame Cage for introducing Queens. brood, entirely enclose the comb. The halves of the cage are fixed in place by short spikes formed of nails partly driven, cut off and filed to points. A simple introducing door is made in the zinc as shown, one of which in each side might, if desired, allow of the release of the queen and her young bees in an otherwise queenleas colony, as I suppose that there are tew existing combs without passage beneath, or " popholes " which allow free communication from side to side. A strip of the zinc is fastened along the bottom bar of each half to close any opening formed by a reduced bottom bar of frame ; this would of course be unne- cessary with bottom bars of §-in. wide in contact. Mr. Doolittle gives ^-in. to f-in. as the distance between comb and cage, but the extra room here shown would not seem to be a disadvantage, for I heard recently of a cage made with j-in. beeway, the perforations in which contained many torn legs, &c., and with 80 little room the queen might easily suf
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