The Honey Bee 1517 



In two days the cells which were returned to the colony will 

 be ready for use. If there are any small or inferior cells, which 

 is apt to be the case where they raise a large number, they can be 

 destroyed. 



Now if you have not disposed of the brood and queen, which 

 you took away from the cell building colony, it can be put back 

 or united as it originally was, only the queen will have to be in- 

 troduced the same as a strange queen. If you have disposed of 

 the brood and queen in other ways, they must have a card or two 

 of brood and another queen. 



If you want to raise another batch of cells raise them on another 

 colony; never use the same one twice. The queen will lay in a 

 clean comb sooner than she will in a dirty one. If you raise the 

 cells during the honey harvest, the queen will lay faster than she 

 would if you raised these when she was not laying to her full 

 capacity. You must use your judgment in regard to these matters„ 



One of the great advantages of this plan, over other plans, is 

 that the nurse bees can spend all their energy en these cells, having 

 to care for no other brood. Another is that you are sure of per- 

 fect queens because they have no larvae too old to raise queens 

 from. If you want to raise but a few cells do not leave the card 

 so long in the breeding colony. 



There has been over a hundred cells raised on a single card at 

 one time. If you want to raise good, prolific queens you must 

 observe these cautions strictly. 



