THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Home Apiary of J. F. Burton, Vail, Iowa. 



In transferring our eggs or larvae I simply brush and shake 

 the bees off and slip the comb under my coat to keep them nice 

 and warm while going to and from my transferring room, for this 

 room should be good and hot, lOO will do no harm. After we get our 

 cells cleaned and ready we leave them where they are good and 

 warm, going to our cell building colony after our young larvae 

 about 24 hours after, or when the larvae are about 12 hours old. 



Now note how they have fed those larvae. They are just float- 

 ing in royal jelly. Again, pick out the ones that have the most 

 jelly and transfer them into your cell cups. You don't need any 

 primed cell cups, you have a good big lot of royal jelly right where 

 you want it. I use a quill to transfer with. A duck quill is the 

 best. Scrape down the quill on one side real thin, cut off the other 

 half with a sharp knife, scrape the end so when you shove it down 

 to the bottom of the cell it will double up and pick about every bit 

 of royal jelly out of the cell. I take a wooden toothpick and just 

 slide the larvae and jelly into the center and bottom of cell. I use 

 the Standard Langstroth frame, not a G frame, as the editor made 

 me say. Now work as fast as you can and get those larvae back 

 to the cell building colony as quick as you can. Don't forget to 

 slip the frame of cells under your coat to keep them nice and warm. 

 Don't be negligent. Now if you can get those cells into that hive 

 before the nurse bees get into those cells to feed those larvae, you 

 can do better than I can. If you have better success by letting the 

 bees clean and shape the cells let them do it for you, as some claim 



