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INTRODUCING 
and when she crawls upward the plug' may 
be replaced. 
THE CHANTRY PRINCIPLE OF INTRODUCING. 
Introducing' cages have been constructed 
to permit the bees to have access to the 
queen, thru a single opening of perforated 
zinc, a day or two after inserting the intro¬ 
ducing cage. This permits workers to pass 
Benton Introducing-cage with the Thomas Chan¬ 
try feature added. The U-shaped piece of tin slides 
over the perforation as shown in the next cut. The 
queen is caged in the hive in the regular way. At 
the end of 24 to 48 hours the U-shaped piece of tin 
is removed, when the bees enter thru the perforated 
zinc opening. On a day or two later the apiarist 
releases the queen. 
in and out of the cage for about two days 
before she is released, carrying with them 
the odor of the laying queen. Since the 
bees do not attack a queen while she is in 
the cage, the perforated metal prevents 
any danger of the queen’s being balled or 
killed. The bees on entering the cage be¬ 
gin to feed the queen, and since these bees 
porarily closed to prevent the bees from getting at 
the queen. 
afterward go outside and mingle with the 
bees of the colony, the queen is really in¬ 
troduced before she is released from the 
cage. By having two plugs of candy in 
the cage, a short one covered with the per¬ 
forated metal that the bees will eat out in 
about two days and a long one which re¬ 
quires about four days for the bees to eat 
thru, such a cage automatically gives the 
bees access to the queen thru the perfor¬ 
ated metal after two days, then releases her 
after four days. Some object to this ar¬ 
rangement and prefer to use a stopper of 
some sort over the perforation. This is re¬ 
moved at the end of the second day when 
the bees enter the perforation. 
PUSH-INTO-COMB-CAGE PLAN OF 
INTRODUCING. 
During 1911 and ’12, and again in 1919, 
there was considerable discussion in the 
bee journals concerning the method of in¬ 
troducing known as the push-into-comb- 
cage plan—that is to say, a plan which 
permits a queen being caged over a few 
cells of honey and brood. This is aceom- 
Wire-cloth corners cut out before folding to make the 
introduction cage that telescopes over the 
. wooden part. 
plished by taking a square of wire cloth of 
suitable size and cutting a small square out 
of each of the four corners. The project- 
ings ends are then folded down so as to 
make a wire-cloth box without bottom. 
This is pushed into a brood-comb with the 
The manner of folding the cage. 
