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has more recently claimed the idea as universally successful. 
He drives a dense mass of smoke into the entrance before 
and after running the queen in, and then stops the opening 
with grass for a few minutes. Mr. Alley omitted the latter. 
Simmins’ Nucleus Method. 
A plan which I have found very satisfactory, and which 
was first suggested to my mind by the fact that I had long 
made a practice of sending queens off with bees they had 
never seen until the moment of fastening down in the 
various receptacles they were to travel in, is as follows :— 
Make up a 3-frame nucleus in a small hive 14$in. by Ilin. 
inside (allowing 2}in. space under the “ Standard” frame) ; 
then confine the bees, with ample ventilation, and having 
found themselves to be queenless, let the new arrival run 
under one corner of the quilt, first driving the bees back 
with a littlke smoke. Keep them thus confined in a 
darkened room, and liberate on the evening of the third 
day, standing the nucleus where it is to remain; and as 
soon as strong enough give a frame of hatching brood at 
intervals of seven days. Before inserting the queen, she 
should, for greater security, be kept alone and without food 
for 30 minutes. ‘ 
Mr. Doolittle (of America) also appears to have discovered 
that confined bees will readily accept a strange queen. His 
plan is to shake the bees into a box, well ventilated, and as 
soon as they are in distress at the loss of their queen, he 
allows the new one to run among them through a small 
opening, otherwise kept closed. In a day or two the bees 
are placed upon brood and store combs, where it is intended 
they shall remain. 
In times of scarcity it is always better to have the 
feeding-bottle going when it is decided to insert a queen 
by any caging process. All the foregoing plans have 
