ILLUSTRATIONS 



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 Fig. 1. Standard frame with bar of completed cells on wooden flanged cnps 



and bar of Doolittle wax cells 12 



2. Standard frame with bars of queen cells on wooden bases 13 



3. Two-stor}' hive with perforated zinc honey board between the stories, 



the top to be used for queen rearing 13 



4. Swarthmore incubator holding sixteen cells on wooden bases 14 



5. Swarthmore incubator in frame 14 



6. Swarm box, showing position of frames and inner side of lid, with 



wooden cells in place, ready for bees 16 



7. Swarm box from below, with top of lid 17 



8. Frame with a strip of foundation only partly drawn out, with larvaj 



in cells, cut according to Alley plan of cell starting 19 



9. Titoff nurseries in frame holder, showing construction of nursery 20 



10. Swarthmore nursery, with queens 21 



11. Swarthmore nursery dissected 21 



12. Swarthmore nurseries in frame, showing method of storing forty- 



eight queens 22 



13. A style of cage which answers all the requirements for convenience 



and usefulness as nursery and introducing cage ._ 22 



14. Swarthmore nucleus with one frame removed to show construction . . 23 



15. Swarthmore nucleus with introducing cage in place between the 



frames 23 



16. Benton mating boxes 26 



17. Benton mailing cages 26 



