1 (SCI 



V.16 

 1905 



THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



er that the gun-wad fits snugly, thus 

 holding the cell in place and stopping 

 up that end of the cage. The other 

 end of the cage is plugged up with a 

 gun-wad. Long rows of these cages, 

 filled with sealed cells, are placed be- 

 tween two wooden strips that tit in 

 between the end-bars of a Langstroth 

 frame, and are held in position by 

 wire staples that fit into slots cut in 

 the ends of the strips. To hold the 

 cages in their places, holes, a trifle 

 larger than the diameter of the cage, 

 are bored, at proper intervals, through 

 the upper strip, thus allowing the 

 cages to be slipped down through the 

 upper bar, until their lower ends rest 

 in corresponding holes bored part way 

 through the lower bar. 



A frame full of these cages, stocked 

 with cells, may be hung in a queen- 

 less colony, and will require no atten- 

 tion whatever, except to remove the 

 queens as they are needed. The 



workers can freely pass into and 

 through the cages, cluster upon the 

 cells, care for them, and feed the 

 queens after they hatch, exactly as 

 well as though the queens were un- 

 caged. 



These cages are unsurpassed as in- 

 troducing cages; either for fertile or 

 for virgin queens The bees are not 

 inclined to attack a queen in a cage 

 to which they can enter, yet they can 

 surround, caress and feed her. They 

 can become acquainted with her, and 

 give her the same scent as them- 

 selves. When desirable to release her, 

 one end of the cage can be stopped 

 ■vA'ith candy, and the bees allowed to 

 liberate her by eating it out. 



By putting food in one end of the 

 cage, a queen may be kept caged, 

 away from the bees, the same as in 

 any other cage. 



Flint, Mich., Jan. 1. 1903. 



BY F. E. BROWN. 



A Well-Directed Gommercial Effort for Go-operation 

 With Good Men at its Head. 



Organization is the watchword on 

 the Pacific coast among the bee-keep- 

 ers, and it behooves the committee of 

 the National organizers to do fast 

 work, or the local branches of the 

 National Association will be far in 

 advance of the mother-order. 



Last week the writer went to Los 

 Angeles to attend the California State 

 Bee-Keepers' Association, and there 

 was much entlmsiasm along the line 

 of National organization, and I can 

 assure you that I did all I could to 

 promote the National idea of market- 



a committee appointed at that con- 

 vention to organize for the marketing 

 of honev; this committee consists of 

 L. E. fiercer, G. W. Brodbeck, M. H. 

 Mendelson. J. F. Mclntyre, Emerson 

 Borts and F. E. Brown. This commit- 

 tee spent one day after the meeting 

 rirlionrripd. and effected one of the 

 most substantial organizations ever 

 effected on this coast. 



A NATIONAI, HONEY PRODUCKRS' 

 ORGANIZATION. 



The name of the new organization 



Ing honey; and I wish to report that is the California National Honey Pro- 

 my time was not wasted, Ther? was ducors' \i<;oointion. It is a stock com- 



