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GLEAiMiNGb iM ULE CULiURE. 



May 15 



QUEEN INCUBATOR AND BROODER; AN AR- 

 RANGEMENT 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 

 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 



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 prop- 

 er intervals, to a strip of wood exactly the 

 length of the inside width of a Langstroth 

 brood-frame. Two 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. 



STANLEY QUEEN INCUBATOR AND BROODER; CELL-CUPS AND FINISHED CELLS. 



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 her efforts 

 to leave the cell. A queen hatched away 

 from the bees loses all of this food, cheer. 



The process of transferring larvas 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 



and comradeship; and, until introduced to the Stanley process steps in. Each cell, as 



CAGES OF OUEEN-EXCLUDING METAL. 



a nucleus or full colony, has not the nat- 

 ural food that she would secure were she 

 among the bees. 



All of these objections are overcome by 

 an invention of Mr. Arthur Stanley, of Dix- 

 on, Illinois. Mr. Stanley makes the cell- 

 cups according to the directions given in 

 Mr. Doolittle's Scientific Queen-rearing, 



it is removed, is slipped into a little cylin- 

 drical cage, made of queen-excluding zinc, 

 the cage being about two inches long, and 

 of such a diameter that the gun-wad fits 

 snugly, thus holding the cell in place and 

 stopping up that end of the cage. The 

 other end of the cage is plugged up with a 

 gun-wad. Long rows of these cages, filled 



