IMPLEMENTS. 



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apart and three-quarters inch deep, and bend over the tongues thus 

 formed so as to close this end of the cage. With the Hat end of a 

 pencil press warm wax or comb into the bottom inside to give it firmness. 

 Then unravel five or six strands of the wire cloth at the <rther end. 

 The wire points left after unraveling these strands may be pressed into 

 the comb so as to confine a queen and four or five of her attendant 

 workers. (Fig. 66.) 



Most of the queen-mailing cages are arranged to admit of their use 

 in introducing the queens also, so that when received it is only neces- 

 sary to withdraw a cork and place the cage on top of the brood frames, 

 thus admitting the bees to the candy. They will eat their way in and 

 release the queen in twenty-four to forty eight hours. This plan is 

 very good for such as lack experience in handling queens, and hence 

 might injure them by grasping the abdomen, by pinching the thorax 

 too hard, or by catching the legs on the wire cloth of the introducing 

 cage. 



BEE FEEDERS. 



During warm weather liquid food may be placed in any open recep- 

 tacles which can be set in the 

 upper stories of the hives. Tin 

 fruit or vegetable cans that have 

 been used may be made to serve 

 the purpose, a wooden float for FIQ . 3 7._sim P ucity feeder. 

 each or some bits of comb being culture.) 



put in to keep the bees from drowning; but during cool weather feeders 

 arranged to admit the bees but not permit the escape of heat had better 



(From A B C of Bee 





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FlG. 38. Fruit-jar bee feeder. Bottom of feeding stage and perforated cap shown separately. (Orig. 



