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A MONTHLY JOURNAL 



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 W. z. HDTCBISON, Editor anl Proprietor. 



VOL. XVI. FLINT, MICHIGAN, JAN. 10, 1903. NO. 1. 

 QUEEN INCUBATOR AND BROODER. 



BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. j 



An Arrangement that Allows the Bees Access to the j 



Cells and Queens at all Times. s 



One of the greatest objections urged 

 against a lamp nursery, or any kind 

 of a nursery where queens are hatched 

 away from the bees, is that the cells 

 and their inmates are robbed of the 

 actual care of the bees. "When the 

 bees have access to a cell, and the 

 time approaches for the queen to 

 emerge, the wax over the point is 

 pared down, and, as the queen cuts 

 an opening through the cell, and 

 thrusts out her tongue, she is fed and 

 cheered in lier efforts to leave the cell. 

 A queen hatcned away from the bees 

 loses all of this food, cheer and com- 

 radeship; and, until Introduced to a 

 nucleus, or full colony, has not the 

 natural food that she would secure 

 ;i3\-ore she among the bees. 

 ^ All of these objections are overcome 

 Hby an invention of Mr. Arthur Stan- 

 "ley, of Dixon, Illinois. Mr. Stanley 

 ""makes the cell-cups according to the 

 directions given in Mr. Doolittle's 



Scientific Queen Rearing, sticking the 

 base of each cell to a No. 12 gun wad. 



By the use of melted wax, these 

 wads, with the cells attached, are 

 stuck, at proper intervals, to a strip of 

 wood exactly the, length of the inside 

 width of a Langstroth brood-frame. 

 Two wire staples driven into the in- 

 side of each end-bar, slide into slots 

 cut in the ends of the cell-bars, and 

 hold them in position. 



The process of transferring larvae 

 to the cells, getting the cells built, etc., 

 have all been described in the books 

 and journals, and need not be repeated 

 here. W^hen the cells are sealed they 

 may be picked off the bar (still attach- 

 ed to the gun wads); and right here 

 is where the special features of the 

 Stanley process steps in. Each cell, 

 as it is removed, is slipped into a 

 little cylindrical cage, made of queen- 

 excluding zinc, the cage being about 

 two inches long, and of such a diamet- 



