HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



small quantity of candy made from mixing 

 pulverized sugar with honey until it makes a 

 stiff dough, so that the virgins will be pro- 

 vided with food when they emerge, in case the 

 bees refuse to feed them through the wire net- 

 ting, which they often do. 



After the cells are completed, the only thing 

 the bees do for the cell is to maintain the 

 proper temperature of about ninety-eight 

 degrees, and again and again I have hatched 

 choice queens in an ordinary chicken incubator 

 by keeping it at the required temperature. 

 The cells taken care of by the bees, however, 

 show a larger percentage of hatch, as the bees 

 will gnaw the ends of the cells given to their 

 care until they are as thin as paper, which is 

 a great aid to the virgin in getting out. 



Going back to the time of taking the cells 

 from the swarm box, after the cells are re- 

 moved, the imprisoned bees can be shaken 

 at the entrance of the hive from which they 

 were taken, and they are glad indeed to join 

 their fellows. By the Doolittle Method, the 



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