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the cages have to be left or not, I find this a very con- 

 venient way, and after getting rid of one I often lift a 

 frame from the hive with the four fingers still holding 

 the cages. Of course a whole handful of these cages may 

 be carried round with queens, if the ends are stopped with 

 the cell pegs, with foundation, cork, grass or paper ; or 

 they may just as well be in the pockets of the operator. 

 We now come to the 



Flat circular cages 



illustrated upon the same comb. The reader of my former 

 editions will know how severely I have condemned the 

 practice of 



Holding Virgin Queens in Candy-stored Nurseries. 



It is a plan which I have never followed, being convinced, 

 as Cheshire has also assured us, that the virgin queen 

 absolutel}- needs free access to the cells containing natural 

 stores oi pollen, as well as honey. When free, she receives 

 no care from the workers, and consumes, a considerable 

 amount of pollen, in building up her wonderful constitu- 

 tion ready for the onerous duties to follow. Consequently 

 I select unsealed combs of stores consisting of pollen and 

 honey, whereon the young queens are caged as shown, 

 until they can be utilised. Twelve to twenty are placed 

 on a suitable comb, and these inserted between the brood 

 combs of a strong nucleus In this way I also have 



Duplicate Queens in Nuclei ; 



and liberate a virgin soon after the earlier queen has been 

 removed. This has always saved me much time and 

 material, as a small number of nuclei will bring along 

 many queens during suitable weather. I have frequently 

 mentioned that I knew of only one way of 



