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have cells on the e:lge, thus making them easier to cut 

 out when wanted. The part cut away would only be 

 in the way of both of us. 



b]-:es using younx. larv.?^ only. 



When a queen is taken away from a full colony, the 

 bees start cells from voung brood, and as I have already 



Fig. 84. — Woman's Bee-Dress. 



said, they continue to start fresh cells for several days, 

 and until after there is no longer brood of the proper 

 age, so that the last cells started will contain larvae too 

 old to make good queens. But on these combs prepared 

 as I have described, they do not do so. Rarely, if ever, 



