RAISING AND INTRODUCTION OF QUEENS. 329 
third, evading the instinct by deceiving the bees in 
such a manner that no feeling of antipathy is aroused. 
First : Caging. This plan admits of an acquaintance 
being formed while the queen is safe from attack, and 
generally, after confinement, continued for a day or 
two — the period varying with changing circumstances 
— the workers attend her at her liberation with every 
appearance of attachment. 
The 
G. Raynor has been extensively used, and is repre- 
sented at Fig. 86. The rest-plate (/?/), by lying on 
the top bars of the frames, or on the edges of the 
feed-hole, supports, between the combs, the body of 
the cage, which is about 3 in. long. Should there be 
a queen in the hive to be operated upon, she must 
first be secured. The cage,* with its lower door (/«') 
closed, is now pushed down between two combs upon 
which the bees are clustering, when the mother to 
be dispossessed is run into imprisonment by means 
of the upper door {ud). After twelve hours, a little 
smoke is given at the entrance of the hive, and the 
I upper door of the cage opened. The queen, disturbed 
I by the smoke, walks out for a little fresh air, permit- 
i ting the operator to replace her by her successor, 
i Twenty-four hours later, if there be no apparent excite- 
ment at the entrance, the lower door of the cage is 
opened by pushing down the wire (w), giving the. new 
queen her liberty. To these recommendations I add, 
let the release of the queen be made after dark. The 
1 modification of the method, when dealing with skeps, 
is obvious. 
* “ Queen Introduction,” by the Rev. G. Raynor. 
cage bearing the honoured name of the Rev. 
