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grafting them without royal jelly, was gone 

 through with, and numerous questions from 

 the floor were answered. A very important 

 point was the Swarthmore open-top folding 

 frames and the manner of applying cell-bars, 

 incubating, and confining cages to them, 

 through slits in the sheets, from the top of 

 the hive, without disturbing the bees, which 

 was also demonstrated, and showed many 

 labor-saving points. 



A number of small cups, set side by side 

 in a little frame so as to resemble a comb, 

 in which the breeding queen will deposit 

 eggs, to save the long process of grafting by 



hand, attracted considerable attention and 

 brought forth much comment. It was shown 

 how these little cups, each containing an 

 egg, could be drawn from the frame, slipped 

 into holding-shells, and given to the bees for 

 queen-rearing, and how other cups could be 

 replaced in the frame for future use in cell- 

 getting. 



Since 18S1 he has been experimenting with 

 " baby nuclei, " and he has never used, from 

 first to last, in these nuclei, more than a 

 handful of bees in a little box for the sole 

 purpose of mating queens. On the question 

 of queen-mating, Mr. Pratt said twenty-five 



BEE-YARD OP H. W. 



WILSON, DERBY, VT., SHOWING A SWARM THAT HAS JUST BEEN 

 HIVED. SEE EDITORIAL. 



