124 THE BEEKEEI^ERS DIRECTORY. 



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frames, takes them out and examines each one until the queen 

 is found. It usually requires about as much time for him to 

 find a queen as it does to read these few lines descriptive of 

 the method. 



The beekeeper who is bound to succeed will soon - find 

 plenty of methods to do all the required work about the api- 

 ary. If one method fails he tjies another. 



A new plan for introduoing queens. 



The immediate introduction of queens is desirable. Here 

 is a plan by which queens may be introduced at once when 

 received. As soon as the queen in the colony to which the 

 new queen is to be introduced is found, the shipping cage may 

 be placed in the hive, provided the food is so arranged that 

 the bees in the colony can remove it. The cage here illus- 

 trated is the one used for shipping queens by mail from the 

 Bay State Apiary. It is the combination mailing-and-ship- - 



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Fie. 11. 'Alley's combined shipping and introducing cage. 



ping cage. If you will examine it you will notice that the 

 wire-cloth does not quite cover the food. To introduce aqueen 

 with this cage, all that is necessary is to remove the cover and 

 place it in the hive where the bees of the colony can get at 

 the food. They will soon remove it and the queen will walk 

 out successfully introduced. Have introduced hundreds in 

 this way without the loss of one. 



