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Mr. Stanley — They are started with rojral jelly and then 

 the larva is grafted in. I made these myself. 



Mr. McCain — Are those the ordinary Doolittle cups? 



Mr. Stanley — No. This is a frame showing complete 

 cells, some of them hatched and some of them not. At this 

 stage that should be removed (indicating). 



Mr. Kimmey — What would I do with those if I had- 

 them? 



Mr. Stanley— If you wanted to save the queen I suppose 

 you would put it in a cage until she hatched and then you 

 could make use of it by putting it in a nucleus, the full 

 colony. 



Mr. Moore — Before these hatch you cover them with 

 some kind of a metal cover. 



Mr. Stanley — ^Yes. In introducing the cage it is supplied 

 with a candy, to liberate the queen at any time. They are 

 kept warm with the heat of the colony in full colonies or 

 nucleus. 



Dr. Miller — Right down in the colonies? 



Mr. Stanley — Yes; they are put right between brood- 

 CQmbs, one, two, three or four colonies. 



Dr. Miller — I wish you could all see closely the beautiful 

 workmanship of all of this. Mr. Stanley is a wonder as a 

 mechanic. His work is beautiful. 



Mr. Whitney — Do you mean to say that you can intro- 

 duce a queen to a colony in one of those protectors — that is, 

 a laying queen, and the bees not kill the queen? 



Mr. Stanley — Yes, I can introduce a virgin queen into 

 a colony and have the laying queen caged. 



Mr, Whitney — ^With room for the bees to go in and out 

 at pleasure? 



Mr. Stanley — Yes, the bees can go in and out and feed 

 their laying queen. Have your laying queen caged, and the 

 virgin queen at liberty on the combs. 

 ' Dr. Miller — ^Would it do if there were a laying queen 



at liberty in the hive? 



Mr. Stanley — You couldn't liberate the virgins. You 

 ■ might lose your virgin and you might lose your life. 



Mr. McCain — In regard to fertilizing. You have quite 

 a number of cells there. What is your method of getting 

 the queens fertilized? 



Mr. Stanley — I use a three-frame nucleus, standard size 

 frame. I have tried the small one. I have had some failure 

 and some success. 



Mr. McCain — ^Do you introduce the virgins one at a 

 time? 



Mr. Stanley — One at a time. 



Mr. Kannenberg — How long can you keep the queens 

 after they are hatched in those cells you have there? 



Mr. Stanley — I have kept one 34 days to see how long 

 I could keep them. 



Mr. Kannenberg — Without any honey ? The bees will 

 feed them? 



Mr. Stanley — Yes. 



