THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Queen rearinx haa kept pace with the 

 other strides made in the apicultural line; 

 and it is doubtful if any queen breeder 



lustration, they are supplied with just- 

 hatched larvic, using the small, concaved 

 end of the forming stick, whereby the 

 larva can be picked up, cocoon and all, 

 and deftly transferred to 

 the cell-cup. This is " taking up the 

 baby without waking it up," as somebody 



with them is well shown in the engrav- 

 ing. Isn't this away ahead of the old 

 way where the bees went at it to suit 

 themselves, as shown in this month's 

 frontispiece, where it is almost impossi- 

 ble to save all of the cells ? Before the 

 cells are ready to hatch they arc placed 



httle apartment all by itself. If a queen 

 hatches it can do no damage, and it can 

 find food in the shape of soft candy 

 placed in a depression or cavity in the 

 top of the wooden plug that closes the 

 lower part of each little cage. The 

 queens are safe and well cared for here 



of Creek, N. C, who furnishes an article 

 for this month's Review. He also fur- 

 nished the originals from which the ac- 

 companying engraving was made. The 

 process of dipping the cell-cups is des- 

 cribed on page 230. After the cups are 

 attached to a stick, as shown in the il- 



given toa queenlesscolony. How thest 

 cells appear after the bees are througl 



m the nursery. This is done without so 

 nmch as detaching them from the stick. 

 They are all an even distance apart, and 

 this distance just equals the distance be- 

 the tin divisions in the nursery, so 

 that the cells can be lowered all at once 

 into the nursrery, and each cell has a 



virgin queens 

 ve had pretty nearly reach- 

 The great cost, however, 

 is in getting them fer- 

 tilized and laying — the nuclei and bees 

 cost much more than the queens. When 



