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eggs and young brood ( F'ig. cS8). It is taken away, and 

 another frame with two small starters put in its place as 

 before. Thus this nucleus will furnish once a week a 

 frame of comb with brood of the best sort for queen- 

 rearing. It will be a dav or so after the frame is g^iven 



Pig- ^3- — Bee-Dress. 



before the queen lays in it, so that the brood will not be 

 too old even if the bees were so foolish as to prefer it. 



The comb being new^ and tender makes it probably 

 an easier job for the bees to build queen-cells upon it ; 

 at any rate they ahvays show a preference for such 

 comb, and start on it a larger number of cells than they 

 would on older comb. 



