152 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
MY METHOD OF REARING QUEENS. 
MRS. H. G. ACKLIN, ST. PAUL. 
The subject that has been assigned me is somewhat of a misnomer, as it 
is not my method altogether that I use, but it has been appropriated largely 
from Doolittle’s book on Scientific Queen Rearing. By using this method 
one gets fine large queens, with the added advantages of knowing just 
when they will hatch and having a cell that fits in the protectors. We have 
reared queens in the following manner for several years: 
As early in spring as practicable (one has to be governed somewhat 
by the weather) take the queen away from a strong colony. After two or 
A Frame of Fifteen Queen Cells. 
three days there will be queen cells started from which to get royal jelly. 
We use dipping sticks and clean, yellow beeswax, and put twelve cups on 
the first stick. 
Before commencing to prepare the cups, go to the queenless colony and 
shake the bees from all the combs and remove all queen cells, leaving out 
one comb and the open space ready for the frame with cells. Leave this at 
one side, say two combs from the outside. This space will be full of bees 
waiting to get to work long before you are ready to put the frame iho) Leb 
a drop or two of royal jelly into each cup, being quite sure that you remove 
