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perfect composure, which, in turn, allays all suspicion or ex- 
citement among the workers, and relieves her from danger. 
If, however, on presenting her, she is attacked by the work- 
ers, she should, without delay, be withdrawn (without, how- 
ever, making such a quick or rapid movement as to excite the 
bees_), and the attacking bees instantly crushed. In the 
course of a few minutes she may again be presented, some- 
times with success ; but if not, she should be removed as be- 
fore, and replaced, with her own nucleus, in doing which the 
same precaution should be used as in presenting her to the 
new colony, otherwise she may perish by the cruelty of her 
bees. On the following day, after smoking the queenless 
colony, until all the bees are thoroughly subdued and gorged 
with honey, the queen may again be presented as before di- 
rected. If they shall refuse to receive her, it is safer to let 
them remain for seven days from the time they were depriv- 
ed of their queen, by which time it will be found they have 
constructed a greater or less number of queen cells upon their 
combs, in which embryo queens are being’ reared. AH these 
should be removed, or the embryo queens destroyed. On 
the following day, after again smokiDg as above described, 
the queen may be presented as before.” 
“ Last year, in introducing probably sixty queens by this 
process, only three or four failed of success. It, however, 
requires some skill, judgment, and experience in handling 
bees. ” 
“ Another method is first to remove the incumbent queen, 
and on the following day prepare a small fine-meshed wire 
box or case [not of brass or copper], about three inches long 
by one and one-half inch in diameter, with an aperture at one 
end large enough lor the free passage of the queen. In this 
cage should be placed a small piece of honey-comb containing 
enough honey for the queen and half a dozen bees for a pe- 
riod of four or five days. The queen, with half a dozen 
‘ workers, ’ should then be placed in it, and the entrance of 
the aperture closed with a covering of wax, the cage suspend- 
ed firmly between two combs in that part of the hive where 
most of the bees are clustered, and in such position that the 
bees in the hive may communicate readily with the queen, 
and have free access to the wax-closed aperture. They will 
soon gnaw it open and release her. Several other contri- 
vances have been resorted to, but with limited success. I suc- 
ceeded, in my early experiments in making some safe intro- 
