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many various experiments, successfully sent a choice 
queen from the Mississippi River to Stockton, Califor 
nia, by the so-called “ Pony Mail.” 
The most convenient shipping-box is made of one- 
eighth inch board, in length and width the same as a 
No. 5 envelope, and one inch deep in the clear, the 
sides should be nariow enough to leave a crevice of 
about one-eighth of an inch next to the bottom and top 
to admit air; next cut a piece of old and tough comb, 
one inch wide, containing capped honey, place it across 
the centre of the box, the capped ends of the honey 
cells towards the ends of the box, fasten the comb by 
pushing a one inch finishing nail through sides of the 
box into the end of the piece of comb, cut a notch in 
the middle of the comb to allow a bee-passage from one 
end of the box to the other ; next set the box into a 
stock of bees to have the running honey cleaned up by 
the bees, this being done, the box is ready to receive 
the queen ; open the nucleus, and brush a few dozen 
workers into the shipping box, and lay on the top to 
retain them, find the queen, seize her by the wings, 
move the top of the box and gently insert the queen, 
nail on the top, add the directions, address of purcha- 
ser, and the postage, and all is ready for the mail. 
Another shipping cage is made by making a tube of 
wire screening about four inches long, with a disk about 
two inches diameter in each end, on the inside of each 
