HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR FROFIT 



as there is no brood present from which they 

 can raise one, and it is this condition that in- 

 duces them to accept the queen cups you give 

 them and work on them at once. 



The top of the swarm box is so cut out that 

 a couple of cell bars are 

 fitted to it, and in each 

 of these bars are sixteen 

 little waxed cups which 

 close the holes, and in 

 which you will place the 

 transferred larvae, about 

 four o'clock. At four 

 o'clock, go to some col- 

 ony whose queen is a 

 choice one and lift out 

 a frame that has a lot 

 of larvae not over three 

 days old, shake off all the bees, and carry it to 

 the house. See that the room in which you are 

 to do the grafting is heated to at least eighty 

 degrees so as not to chill the larvae when grafted. 

 Lift out one of the cell cups and place a dummy 



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Lifting larva out of 

 worker cell. 



