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Doolittle's "Scientific Queen = rearing!" 



All About Rearing Queen=bees. 



Every bee-keeper should have a copy of G. M. Doolittle's great book on rearing the best queen-bees. It is 

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Importance of Good Queens. 

 Nature's Way of Rearing Queens. 

 Another of Nature's Wa\ s. 

 Old Methods o Rearing Queens. 

 Later Metho Is of Rearing Queens. 

 New Wav of Rearing Queens. 

 Getting Bees off the Cells. 

 What to do with the Queen-cells. 

 Queen-cell Protectors. 

 Nuc'ei— How to Form and Multiply. 

 Bee-feeders and Bee-feeding. 

 Securing Good Drones. 

 Introduction of Queens. 

 Introducing Virgin Queens. 



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Keeping a Record of Cells. Queens, etc. 



Clipping the Queen's Wings. 



Shipping, Shipping-cages Bee-candy, etc. 



Querns Injured in Shipping. 



Quality of Bees and Color of Queens. 



Rearing a Few Queens. 



Later Experiments in Queen-rearing. 



La'est Feats in Queen-rearing. 



Production and Care of Comb Honey. 



Management of Weak Colonies. 



Getting the Boxes Ready and Putting 



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 Swarming. 

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