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<strong>Better</strong> <strong>Queens</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Jay</strong> <strong>Smith</strong><br />
queen is out of the cage and in thousands of such cases we never had a queen<br />
killed or injured. A common belief is that the hive should not be opened until<br />
two weeks after the queen is introduced. In case the queen is not properly<br />
introduced, the bees will ball her whether or not the hive is opened.<br />
The Home Yard Cage<br />
We have what we call the home yard cage-the cut will show how it is made.<br />
Often we have one or two queens to introduce in the home yard, and do not<br />
take the trouble to load a cage with candy, so we use our home yard cage. In<br />
the wooden side is a queen excluder. The queen is put into the cage and the<br />
cage is laid on the top bar or bottom bar with the queen excluder down so the<br />
bees cannot get in. In two or three days, depending on conditions as<br />
previously mentioned, the cage is turned over thus allowing the bees to enter.<br />
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