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For a bottom to the cage, cut a piece of wood 1’/, in. 
long and */, in. square. Place this bottom in one end of 
the wire-cloth shaped to receive it, and faster. with small 
tacks. Ravel a wire from a piece of wire-cloth, and 
weave it throngh the lap in such a way, as to fasten it 
firmly, especially near the top. 
The open,jend should be made of the selvedge of the 
wire-cloth, or if a cut edge is used, one wire should be 
ravelled out, and all the ends nicely bent back, as the 
queen would be likely to receive injury while being caged, 
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Fig. 62.—QUE=EN CAGES, 
if the sharp ends of the wire projected at the edge. 
Prepare a stopper to fit, which completes the cage, (fig. 
62, a). If an opening is cut in the stopper, and filled 
with candy, it will furnish ready food for the caged queen 
at alltimes. Candy for this purpose is made by using “A” 
sugar with a small proportion of flour, and a little water. 
Boil it in a saucepan, stirring until it begins to grain. 
Then fill the cavity in the stopper (fig. 62, 4), with this 
syrup while it is warm, when it will harden. I find 
these directions for making candy in the “A. B. C. of 
Bee Culture,” by A. I. Root. Another form of queen- 
cage may be seen in fig. 62, c. This is */, in. thick, and 
will be found to be a good shipping cage. 
