. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 21, 1916.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 401 her covered deep, and pour her and the honey into the top of the brood chamber. Simmins' Direct Introduction.—1. Keep the queen quite alone for not less than thirty minutes, without food, but warm. 2. Insert after dark, under quilt, first driving the bees back with pmoke. 3. No further examination is to be made until after forty-eight hours have expired. 4. Make no division of, or nucleus from, the hive within three days prior to inser- tion of queen. A. C. Miller's Smoke Method.—Inject into hiv
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Dec. 21, 1916.] THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL. 401 her covered deep, and pour her and the honey into the top of the brood chamber. Simmins' Direct Introduction.—1. Keep the queen quite alone for not less than thirty minutes, without food, but warm. 2. Insert after dark, under quilt, first driving the bees back with pmoke. 3. No further examination is to be made until after forty-eight hours have expired. 4. Make no division of, or nucleus from, the hive within three days prior to inser- tion of queen. A. C. Miller's Smoke Method.—Inject into hive a cloud of thick, white smoke, and use enough to get the Dees into a heavy roar. Then run in the queen, and shut in the smoke and queen for about ten minutes, Bequeening without Dequeening: Doolittle Method.—If you wish to super- sede any queen, on account of old age or any other reason, you have only to put on an upper storey with a queen excluder under it; place a comb of brood, with a queen cell upon it, in this upper storey. After the queen cell has hatched, with- draw the queen excluder, and your old queen is superseded without you ever hav- ing to find her. The foregoing are methods of introduc- ing queens without the use of a cage, but there is little doubt that there is less risk of failure, and withoiit much disturbance to the bees, by using either of the follow- ing plans: — Frame Cage Method.—A wire cloth cage is constructed large enough to take an entire Langstroth frame. Into this place a comb of hatching brood, after first shak- ing off all the old bees. Then insert queen and hang cage in the centre of brood nest for two or three days, when the comb can be removed from the cage and re- placed in the hive. The young bees that have hatched out in the edge will not be antagonistic to the fresh queen. This is the only one they ever knew. Pipe Cover Cage Method.—An ordinary wire cloth tea strainer, with the wire at- tachment for the tea-pot removed, makes
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