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MANUAL OF APICULTURE. 
MAILING QUEENS. 
Queens are now transported nearly always by mail, and sent to all 
parts of the United States, and even to distant foreign countries, 
the cage used almost exclusively being the one shown in fig. 64 or 
some slightly modified form of the 
same, ^o attempt was ever made 
to patent this cage, and as the 
construction is obvious from the 
figure given here, anyone who 
desires can make and use it. , The 
food usually employed in these 
cages by queen breeders is a soft 
candy recommended many years 
ago as bee food by the Eev. Mr. Scholz, of Germany. The Scholz 
candy is made by kneading fine sugar and honey together until a 
stiff dough has been formed. Some think it an improvement to heat 
the honey before adding the sugar. The Yiallon shipping candy 
Fig. 64.— The Benton cage tor transporting a queen 
and attendants by mail. (Original.) 
Fig. 65.— Caging a queen for mailing. (Original— from photograph.) 
consists of four parts of brown sugar and twelve of white sugar, 
with two tablespoonfuls of honey and one of flour to each pound of the 
mixed sugars; these, with a little water added, form a batter, which 
is boiled until it commences to thicken, when it is poured into the food 
compartment of the mailing cage. Mr. I. R. Good recommended for 
