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indicates the entrance to the hive, K the excluder 

 einc, B the alighting board, o the springs, and N 

 the entrance under the excluder zinc. 



Queen cages are often a necessity ; the simplest 

 of them is, perhaps, the pipe-cover queen cage, 

 shown by Fig. 147. It can be made as follows : 

 Get a strip of tinplate 6j in. long and 1 in. 

 wide ; make it into a ring and solder the ends to- 

 gether. Obtain a circular piece of wire gauze or 



Fig. 119. Door or Spring 

 for Queen Bee Cage. 



Fig. 148. Another Type of Queen Cage. 



perforated tinplate, 2 in in diameter, and solder 

 it on as a top, and the cage is complete. 



A disadvantage of this cage is that the bees 

 must be disturbed in releasing the queen. This 

 difficulty is overcome in the cage shown by Fig. 

 148. It consists of a rectangular cage, formed of 

 perforated tinplate or w T ire gauze. Its dimensions 

 are : Length, 4 in. or 5 in. ; width, Ij in. ; thick- 

 ness, J in. A piece of metal, 3j in. wide and as 

 long as the cage, bent over a piece of wood Ij in. 

 by i in., will just make it. A flange is then made 



