ILLUSTRATIONS 



Queen, drone and worker . .Title page 



Queen cells built under the swarming impulse. Fig. 1 



A large average production is only secured by careful selection 



Combs built without foundation contain much drone comb 



Full sheets of foundation insure worker combs _ 



Grafting house in use by southern queen breeders _ 



Rauchfuss mating box..,. '. 



A baby nucleus at the Minnesota University... 



Small mating hives in the Strong queen yard 



Mating hives using shallow extracting frames 



Eight frame hive adapted for four compartment mating hive.... 

 Eight frame hive divided into three parts, with standard frames.... 



Ten frame hive divided into two parts 



Feeding with Mason jars at the Penn yards 



The Alley Nursery Cage 



The Rauchfuss Nursery Cage 



Frame for holding Rauchfuss Cages 



Comb cut down for cell-building by Alley plan __ 



Every alternate egg is crushed by Alley plan 



Queen cells by Alley plan 



Batch of finished cells grafted with drone comb 



Cutting away cells built on drone comb 



Cell block for handling finished cells.. _ 



Queen cells built naturally by Miller plan 



Frame for holding comb for cell building by Case method 



Frame of prepared cups by Doolittle method 



Batch of finished cells by Doolittle method 



Larvae not to exceed thirty-six hours of age should be used for 



grafting- 



Strong colonies should be used for cell-building _. 



Strong cell-finishing colony _ 



Finished cells by the Doolittle method 



Method of placing ripe cell in nucleus which has no brood 



Cell protectors 



A queen mating yard composed of standard hives 



A queen-rearing apiary in Tennessee.... 



Queen mating nuclei under the pine trees of Alabama.-- 



The Benton mailing cage 



The Miller introducing cage 



A Mississippi queen-rearing yard 



A Georgia queen-rearing apiary 



A queen yard in Minnesota 



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