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parent stock may have another frame of eggs from the same 

 queen given to it, and that stock may be kept at queen rearing 

 all the season. When the young queens of the nuclei have been 

 fertilised, and have begun to lay, they may be introduced (295) 

 to the stocks which need them, or may be utilised otherwise 

 as desired. 



Photo from life'i Fig. 97. [bj/ J. O. Digget. 



QTJEBN REAEING— QUEEN CELL ON PEEPARED PEAME. 



293. Using Two Stocks. — When two stocks can be spared, 

 one to produce the eggs, and another to rear the queens, the 

 following plan may be adopted with good results : — Select the 

 best stock (A.), and the second best (C). Into the centre of 

 the brood nest of A. put a frame of foundation. From C. re- 

 move the queen and three frames, one of brood and two of 

 honey, with the adhering bees, and place them in a third hive, 

 taking the precautions suggested above (289). Three or four 

 days later, open hive C. and rub off all queen cells that have 

 been formed upon the combs. Take from A. the frame 

 given it, v;hich should have a quantity of eggs of the right 

 age in its cells ; " scollop," or otherwise prepare it as directed 

 above (289); put it in the middle of the brood nest of C, and 

 leave it for ten days, when you should find upon it a quantity 

 of queen cells within two days of hatching. Now form nuclei, 

 as described above (290), and give to each one or two queen 



