IMPLEMENTS. 
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apart and three-quarters inch deep, and bend over the tongues thus 
formed so as to close this end of the cage. With the flat end of a 
pencil press warm wax or comb into the bottom inside to give it firmness. 
Then unravel five or six strands of the wire cloth at the other end. 
The wire points left after unraveling these strands may be pressed into 
the comb so as to confine a queen and four or five of her attendant 
workers. (Fig. 66.) 
Most of the queen-mailing cages are arranged to admit of their use 
in introducing the queens also, so that when received it is only neces- 
sary to withdraw a cork and place the cage on top of the brood frames, 
thus admitting the bees to the candy. They will eat their way in and 
release the queen in twenty-four to forty-eight hours. This plan is 
very good for such as lack experience in handling queens, and hence 
might injure them by grasping the abdomen, by pinching the thorax 
too hard, or by catching the legs on the wire cloth of the introducing 
cage. 
BEE FEEDERS. 
During warm weather liquid food may be placed in any open recep- 
tacles which can be set in the 
upper stories of the hives. Tin 
fruit or vegetable cans that have 
been used may be made to serve 
the purpose, a wooden float for 
each or some bits of comb being 
put in to keep the bees from drowning; but during cool weather feeders 
arranged to admit the bees but not permit the escape of heat had better 
Fig. 37.— Simplicity 
feeder. (From A B C of Bee 
Culture.) 
Fio. 38.— Fruit-jar bee feeder. Bottom of feeding stage ami perforated cap shown separately. (Orig.) 
