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PRACTICAL QUEEN REARING 



the center of the cover of the hive, Figure 13. In passing through 

 the yard, one can see at a glance the exact amount of feed avail- 

 able to every colony. The feeders are easily filled and replaced 

 without opening the hives, and, at the same time, place the feed 

 above the cluster. 



Nursery Cages. 



During much of the season a queen breeder with an active 

 trade will have no use for nursery cages. Each cell will be placed 

 in a nucleus a day or two before time for the queen to emerge, 

 and there she will remain until removed to fill an order to re- 

 queen a colony. However, it often happens that a batch of 

 cells will mature when no queenless nuclei are ready to receive 

 them, and it becomes necessary to care for them otherwise 



Fig. 13. Feeding with Mason jars set in the top of hives at the Penn 



Company yards, 



