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eggs laid by the confined queen. By this tinrie there is 

 not much doubt about the queen being accepted by the 

 rest of the population, and she may be released. In this 

 case it is evident that food must be present, therefore see 

 that the cage also takes in an inch or more of sealed store. 



Caging Queens with Young Bees. 



Where food is given to a queen confined in the " Raynor,"' 

 " Cheshire," or any other cage, honey from the same hive 

 should alone be supplied ; and on no-account may any of 

 the bees which accompanied her be placed in the cage ; 

 but it is advisable [1893 ed., p. 161J to give her an escort 

 of some half-dozen young workers picked from the comb 

 just after hatching, and taken from the hive in which the 

 queen is to be caged. By these methods the most favour- 

 able time for inserting queens is during the months when 

 they are breeding and storing ; but in autumn the bees- 

 are more inclined to resent intrusion, where so much 

 disturbance is necessary. 



DIRECT INTRODUCTION. 



A term first applied by myself in the year 188 1, will be 

 found much more simple than the foregoing, in that it 

 enables the bee-keeper to insert a queen without loss of 

 time and by two of my own methods to any colony, at 

 any time of the year, whatever be the condition of the 

 hive, whether it contains queen cells up to the point of 

 hatching, brood in every stage of development, fertile 

 workers, or no brood at all. 



Simmins' " Comb Method," 



first brought to public notice by my pamphlet in 1881, 

 consists in taking a queen from a nucleus, or otherwise, 

 upon the comb she is parading among her own bees, and! 



