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aEOKGL W . YORK, Editor. 







40th YEAR, 



CHICAGO, ILL,, JUNE 28, 1900, 



No, 26. 



[This Prize Article and Illustratioas from the Bee-Keepers* Review. J 



Commercial Queen=Rearing in all of Its Details. 



BY \V. H. PRIDGKN. 



VERY few queen-breeders now allow the bees to construct their own queen- 

 cells. The cells are dipt and fastened in some way to a stick and then sup- 

 plied with just-hatcht larva?. If only a few cell-cups are needed they may 

 be dipt by using a single dipping-stick, dipping a single cell at a time ; but this 

 is too slow work where there are many cells to be dipt. 



The dipping-stick shoiild be not larger than 5-16 of an inch in diameter. 

 The tapering part should be S-16 of an inch long ; reduced rapidly the first >s of 

 an inch, and then gradually reduced to the end. It should slip into a worker- 



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