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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 5, 1903. 



WEEKLY BY 



GEORGE W. YORK 8 COMPAINY 



144 & 146 E. Erie St., Gtiicago, 111. 



EDITOR, 



DEPT. EDITORS, 



Dr.C.C.Mii,ler, E.E.Hastv, Emm 



. M. Wilson 



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CBLI<-CUPS AND FINISHED CELI.S. 



CAGES OF QUEEN EXCI,UDING METAI<. 



Stanley Queen Incubator and Brooder 



An Arrangement that Allows the Bees Access to the Cells and Queens at all Times. 



One of the greatest objections urged against 

 a lamp-nursery, or any kind of a nursery 

 where bees 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 ap- 

 proaches for the queen to emerge, the wax 

 over the point is pared, and, as the queen 

 cuts an opening through the cell, and thrusts 

 out her tongue, she is fed and cheered in her 

 efforts to leave the cell. A queen hatched 

 away from the bees loses all of this food, 

 cheer, and comradeship; and, until intro- 

 duced to a nucleus, or full colony, has not the 

 natural food that she would secure were she 

 among the bees. 



All of these objections are overcome by an 

 invention of Mr. Arthur Stanley, of Lee Co., 

 Ills. Mr. Stanley makes the cell-cups accord- 

 ing 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 cell at- 

 tached, are stuck, at proper intervals, to a 

 strip of wood exactly the length of the inside 

 width of a Langstroth brood-frame. Two 



(Patent Applied for.) 



wire staples driven into the inside of each 

 end-bar, slide into slots cut in the ends of the 

 cell-bars, and hold them in position. 



The process of transferring larvie to the 

 cells, getting the cells built, etc., have all been 

 described in the books and journals, and need 

 not be repeated here. When the cells are 

 sealed they may be picked off the bar (still 

 attached to the gun-wads) ; and right here is 

 where the special features of the Stanley pro- 

 cess 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 diameter that 

 the gun-wad Uts snugly, thus holding the cell 

 in place and stopping up the 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 between two 

 wooden strips that fit in between the end-bars 

 of a Langstroth frame 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 trifie larger than the diameter 

 of the cage, are bored, at proper intervals, 

 through the upper strip, thjs allowing the 



cages to be slipped down through the upper 

 bar, until their lower ends rest in correspond- 

 ing holes bored part way through the lower 

 bar. 



A frame full of these cages, stocked with 

 cells, may be hung in a queenless colony, and 

 will require no attention 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 uncaged. 



These cages are unsurpassed as introducing 

 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 be- 

 come acquainted with her, and give her the 

 same scent as themselves. When desirable to 

 release her, one end of the cage can be 

 stopped with 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. 



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