QUEE\-REARL\TG IN ENGLAND. 47 



the queen should be left in it longer. After the queen has 

 been liberated the bees should not be disturbed for four 

 or five days. 



Candy Introducing; Cag^e (Fig. 31). — With this cage 

 (called in America the " Miller" cage) the queen is liberated 

 by the bees eating 

 through a plug of 

 queen candy on which 

 the queen feeds. The 

 time taken by the 

 bees in eating 

 through this plug is 

 usually about eigh- 

 teen hours, but it 

 may be lengthened 

 by tacking a slip of 

 pasteboaird o^'er the 

 candy. The bees are 

 made aware of the 

 presence of the candy 

 by a pinhole pricked 

 in the pasteboard. 

 The commencement 

 of the liberation of 

 the queen may be 



delayed for any length of time by keeping a strip of tin 

 over the candy. The queen is inserted in the cage by the 

 removal of the wooden block e. This cage is made thin 

 enough to be slipped between the combs. The tin strip 

 above e rests across the top-bars of two frames. A cage on 

 the same principle is illustrated on page 24. 



The travelling cage illus.trated on page 45 can be used 

 as a candy introducing cage without taking the queen and 

 workers out, but the presence of the workers slightly in- 

 creases the risk, and it is better to introduce the queen alone 

 in a fresh cage. If it is not known that the apiary from 

 which the queen has come is free from disease, it is always 

 best to introduce the queen in a new cage with fresh candy. 



Other methods that have been successfully employed to 

 reduce risk in introduction are exciting the bees by shaking 

 them or smoking them, stupefying them temporarily with 

 tobacco smoke, and smearing the queen with honey. 



Fig. 31. 

 Candy Introducing-cagei (i Hole for candy; 

 e Block which is removed for inserting queen. 



