HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



cell cups which are filled with melted beeswax, 

 and with a small hand press made for the 

 purpose, the rudimentary of the queen cell 

 is made. 



Into each one of these little cell cups a 

 larva must be placed, and a small piece of 

 wire is made for this purpose. 



While a colony will accept these little cells, 

 and supply the larvae with the necessary food, 

 yet it is best to make a colony queenless 

 several days before the larvae are grafted, and 

 from the natural cells a small quantity of the 

 royal jelly can be placed in each wooden cup 

 with the grafted larvae, as the bees more 

 readily start on such cells than on those that 

 are not so supplied. 



The larva is taken from the worker cells 

 of the colony from whose queen you desire to 

 rear queens, and must be not more than about 

 three days old, as such larvae alone can be 

 depended upon for good queens. If you 

 secure a larva that is only a day old, so much 

 the better, and in lifting it from the worker 



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