. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 223 trying to get them to accept a queen even when introduced in the usual way. Last season, when introducing some queens that had just arrived from Italy, I succeeded with four out of five without any trouble, each taking up their respective stations in less than twenty-four hours, but the fifth one I found balled, and was just in time to save her. I cage
. The illustrated Australasian bee manual and complete guide to modern bee culture in the southern hemisphere. With this is incorporated the "New Zealand bee manual" greatly enlarged, revised and mostly rewritten. Bees. BEE MANUAL. 223 trying to get them to accept a queen even when introduced in the usual way. Last season, when introducing some queens that had just arrived from Italy, I succeeded with four out of five without any trouble, each taking up their respective stations in less than twenty-four hours, but the fifth one I found balled, and was just in time to save her. I caged her again but in such a way that the bees could not liberate her, and on looking over the combs I found queen cells com- menced, which I destroyed. In twenty-four hours I turned the queen loose, when the bees again balled her; this occurred twice more, when I gave it up with that colony and tried another, to which she was successfully introduced by the following Fig. 105—ALLEY'S INTRODUCING CAGE. From what has been stated in a former chapter it will be understood that if we wish to change our bees from one variety to another we have only to change our queens. In this way we may change from blacks to Italians, or vice versa. I have used several kinds of introducing cages but the most simple and handiest, according to my judgment, is Alley's (Fig. 105). I have used no other for the past two seasons. It is made by boring a l|in. hole half-an-inch from one end in a small block of wood 3iu. long, 2in. wide, by half-an-inch thick ;. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Hopkins, Isaac, 1837-1925. Auckland, N. Z.
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