and its Economic Management. -hy 



ing them to run in direct, or place them in that most 

 useful 



Tubular Virgin Queen Cage 



adopted by myself, and which has been in use in my own' 

 apiary for many years. It was described in my 1888 

 edition, and again in that of 1893 It is a small tube of 

 perforated tin or zinc, a full half-inch in diameter, and. 

 two inches long. 



The numerous advantages of this tubular cage have 

 unfolded themselves by a gradual process of adaptation in 

 my practice over a period of many years. As soon as I 

 designed my new cell frame with detachable pegs in 1894^ 

 I saw how readily they would work in confining the young 

 queens just about hatching, until one had time to remove 

 them. One of the original photos was sent to the editor 

 of Gleanings in Bte-culturs nearly ten years' since, and 

 yet just recently he shows something very similar, but 

 with less convenient cell bases, as a new invention. Such 

 is the treatment one gets from the hands of a busy editor.. 

 I have shown in former editions how my tubular cage was 

 used for inserting virgin queens, [p. 152, 1893 ed.] either 

 by stopping the open end with a piece of super founda- 

 tion, as shown below the comb (Fig 09.) on the right ; or 

 by pressing the open end into the honey at the top of the- 

 comb ; or again by inserting a ripe queen cell ; and in 

 either case, just pressing the cage into the stores near 

 the top of the frame, the open end always being down- 

 wards. The tubular cage to the left shows the detachable 

 cell base used as a plug for retaining the queen wliile- 

 shifting her. 



In uniting:, 



the queen to be reserved is just popped into one of these 

 tubular cages, the end pressed down into the stores, and 



