CONTENTS 



Chapter I <> 



Races of Bees. 



Varieties of Mellifica. 



Black or German Bees. 



The Cyprian Bee. 



The Holy-Land Bees or Syrians. 



The Italian Bee. 



Carniolans. 



Caucasians. 



Banat Bees. 



Tunisian or Punic Bees. 



Egyptians. 



Other Races. 



Chapter II : 19 



Life Story of the Bee. 



Life of the Queen. 



The Drone. 



Queen Rearing in Nature. 



Chapter III 23 



Improvement of Stock by Breeding. 



Desirable Traits in Breeding Stock. 



Control of Drones. 



Mating in Confinement a Failure. 



Parthenogenesis. 



Chapter IV 31 



Equipment for Queen Rearing. 

 Grafting House. 

 Mating Hives: 



The Rauchfuss Mating Boxes. 



Baby Nuclei. 



Small Hives. 



Divided Standard Hives. 

 Feeders. 

 Nursery Cages: 



Alley Nursery Cage. 



Rauchfuss Nursery Cage. 

 Shipping Cages. 



Chapter V .... 47 



Early Methods of Queen Rearing: 

 Quinby's Method. 

 The Alley Plan. 



Chapter VI. ....S3 



Present Day Methods of Queen Rearing: 

 The Davis Method of Using Drone Comb. 

 Natural Built Cells by the Miller Plan. 

 Big Batches of Cells by the Case Method. 

 The Doolittle Cell-cup Method. 



