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cell cups collected from combs, fastening them to th bars of the 

 frame prepared for the purpose as above. Then, to each cup a 

 bit of jelly, secured from the unsealed cells started by the colony 

 after being made queenless and prior to the removing of the unseal- 

 ed brood, is allotted. Then, by means of a sliver or toothpick bent 

 at the end, or by the use of a little metal ladel, especially prepared 

 for the purpose the young larvae are transferred f rorni the comb con- 

 taining the brood from which it is desired to rear the young queens, 

 to these cups. Some beekeepers prefer to go a step further and use 

 artificially made cells prepared by dipping, and encased in wood 

 or other materials such as fine wire gauze, each being provided 

 with a point like that of a tack, for attachment to the bars. The 

 transferring process is the same in the use of these. The advantage 

 in the use of such cups is the ease with which they may be re- 

 moved and distributed when they reach the proper stage of develop- 

 ment. 



There are beekeepers who .prefer to rear queens under what 

 they believe to be more nearly normal conditions, that is, those con- 

 ditions which prevail when the cells are produced prior to swarm- 

 ing. This school of beekeepers believe that cells reared in a queen- 

 less colony are liable to be hurried along by the bees anxious for a 

 queen, and so do not receive the proper care and attention. So they 

 place the frames prepared in one or the other of the ways above 

 indicated, into the top story of a good strong colony, having pre- 

 viously seen that the queen is in the lower story and having in- 

 serted between the two stories a zinc honey board or queen ex- 

 cluder. The latter is a sheet of zine the size of the top of the hive 

 perforated with passages just large enough to let the worker bees 

 through, but not of a size to permit of the passage of the queen. 

 This excluder is such as to keep the queen from the top story when 

 extracted honey is being produced. The colony then goes along 

 in its normal condition and a fine quality of queen cells is produced 

 above. 



Another method used by some, on the same principle, is to 

 partition off the central portion of the brood chamber with queen 

 excluder zinc and placing the previously prepared frame of cells in 

 this central apartment, allow the queen to follow her usual duties 

 of egg laying on both sides changing her from one side to the other, 

 to furnish her empty cells in which to deposit eggs. In this way the 



