QUBBN REARING AND INTRODUCTION. 



168b 



800fc Queen Rearinc on • Larce Soal«.-For commercial purposes, 

 none of the methods already described (286—293) will suffice The 

 "^'"^ Breeder, whose business it is to raise and sell queens, and, 

 mdeed, the owners of large apiaries, cannot afford to depend upon 



Fia. lOOo. QUEEN HEARING APPLIANCES. 

 a, Uandril. b. Nursery cage. _£, Transferring tool, ij. Nursery cages in Standara 



frame, e. Cell protector. 



/, Wooden cell-cup. 

 frame. 



g. Cell-cup on laths in Standard 



any plan that will not provide queens in quantities and at the right 

 moment. In such cases, recourse must be had to cell-cups, or to 

 artificial cells, and to the transfer of " Royal jelly " and larvae (197). 

 300c, Artificial Queen Cells. — For the preparation of artificial cells, 

 a mandril (Fig. looc. a) will be required. This may be formed from a 

 piece of rounded wood, cut to the size of the interior of a queen cell, 

 and smoothed with glass paper ; or one may be purchased for a few 



