> Back in the 1970s. 
> cardboard introducing cage.
> no need to go back for the cage.

No need for a special product, this can all be done with standard wooden
3-hole queen cages.

With existing hives, one can push the wooden queen cage into the comb in the
top corner of a frame that is among your oldest, and cut away comb around
the candy plug with a penknife.  The cage can be collected at the
beekeeper's leisure.

With novices and their packages, the same approach can be taken, but the
cage is nestled up against the foundation, and tacked to the frame top and
side bar with some brads, pushed in at an angle with a brad driver or
pliers.  This has multiple good outcomes, in that the bees will draw out
their first comb in a frame, rather than "wastefully" around a queen cage
suspended in an empty slot between frames, all 10 frames can be left in the
brood chamber, as the cage does not create a bee-space problem, and the cage
will be securely attached, and need not be retrieved until the beekeeper is
ready.


 

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