130 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



For shipping, the cases should be packed in a carrier with 

 handles on both sides extending about 5 inches beyond the ends 

 of the carrier, with three inches of straw on the bottom. Then lay 

 newspaper on the sides and top of the cases, always placing the 

 glass toward the inside of the carrier so that the truckmen are not 

 tempted to break the glass with their feet. 



Comb Honey raised and shipped to the market like the above 

 not only gladdens your heart, but stamps you as a practical bee- 

 keeper and rewards you with the best price the market can afford, 

 and elevates the profession of bee-keeping. 



Three cheers for the few Comb Honey producers who have the 

 consumers' interest at heart, and a rousing tiger for those great 

 western producers who have the distinguished honor to lead the 

 way and develop the market to the high state of perfection it is 

 today. 



Cincinnati, Ohio. 



[Now that I have pulled off my coat to get a more standard 

 set of grading rules, it gives me great pleasure to give space to the 

 above from so extensive a buyer of honey as Mr. Muth. This ques- 

 tion is of the utmost importance, for with three or four sets of 

 grading rules, with their various interpretations, we will never get 

 that uniform article so necessary to obtain the best price.] 



The Best Method of Introducing a Queen in the 

 Shortest Possible Time. 



WESLEY FOSTER 



>^ /HAVING practiced the tobacco method, the caging of the queen 



jl*l for a day or so before releasing her; and the sugar candy 



method letting the bees gnaw out the queen; I have found 



the following method as little subject to risk and the quickest 



method that I have tried. 



Going to the hive I wish to requeen I find the old queen and kill 

 her, then take two of the combs with the most young bees and 

 hatching bees on them, putting them at one side of the hive with 

 the division board between them and the main cluster of bees. If 

 there are no old bees on these combs to speak of, I then run the 

 new queen right in on these combs of hatching bees. 



So far I have not lost one in twenty of the queens, and in 

 forty-eight hours I come around and remove the division board, 

 readjusting the brood nest as I wish it to be. ]\Iany a hive I just 

 pull out a comb of bees and brood after disposing of the old queen 

 and turn my new queen loose on the comb before my eyes. If the 



