312 A Modern Bee-Farm 
A Surplus of Milky Food not Scientific. 
In the case of artificial rearing of queens, several writers 
have insisted upon the necessity of providing the transferred 
larve with a double dose of the milky food found in the 
worker cells. 
But in transferring larve for this purpose we want to 
make sure of rearing real queens—the very best of queens ; 
and certainly nothing approaching neuters. Therefore why 
add more than is absolutely necessary of that food which 
has been prepared for the development of the stunted 
worker ? 
Can we be quite sure the workers do not remove the bulk 
of that undesirable food one may take so much trouble in 
adding? Anyway it is an act to be avoided. 
The Author has, in the past, started queen cell cups with 
common larve, and after a few hours the grubs have been 
removed and replaced by selected larve. -No advantage 
could be detected over the plan of starting in the first 
instance with those desired. 
Foster-bees and Queen Rearing. 
It is not generally realized that the workers selected for 
rearing queens may to a large extent transmit their own 
peculiarities to the workers of those queens to whom the 
former have acted as foster-mothers. 
Hence the great necessity of using vigorous bees for this 
purpose; while those possessing any disagreeable habits 
should be rejected. The Author has also made a practice 
of using workers for rearing that are unrelated to the queens 
being produced. 
As already shown, in the case of emergency queens only 
one is reserved, though several may be raised. There are 
two points, therefore, of importance to the bee-keeper who 
wishes to obtain a number of superior queens. The colony 
