HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



of accurately spaced combs, in the cells of which 

 they store their honey and pollen, and rear their 



young. The 

 combs are 

 made of bees- 

 wax, and are 

 composed of 

 - 3 worker and 

 drone cells, 

 hexagonal in 

 shape and as 

 thin as paper. 

 In these cells 

 the queen de- 

 posits her 

 eggs, which 

 the cluster- 

 ing bees 



Honey bee dissected. After Witzgall. maintain at a 



proper temperature, varying the kind of food 

 according to the cell and the kind of egg that 

 reposes in it. The eggs will hatch in from six- 

 teen to twenty-four days, a worker egg taking 



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