314 . A Modern Bee-Farm 
from the combs of brood, which latter are then removed, 
and the prepared comb of selected eggs inserted. 
By the time the prepared comb is ready the broodless 
and queenless bees will have found out their loss, and being 
greatly excited are in the best condition possible for starting 
queen cells, Place a comb or two of stores at each side, 
and after two or three days add combs of hatching brood to 
keep up a population of young bees. 
Another Method 
frequently adopted with great ‘success in my own apiary is 
that of selecting combs heavily charged with brood on the 
point of hatching with all the adhering bees—using one 
from each of three or four good colonies, taking care not to 
remove either queen. Place these combs in a new hive 
which for convenience should have been carried round in 
collecting them, and after a few hours, or next day, insert 
the prepared comb of just hatching larvee near to the centre. 
The young bees just congregated (of course, well provided 
with stored combs of wmsealed honey and pollen) will pro- 
duce some of the finest queens ever seen. Remove all 
queen cells that may be started on others than the prepared 
frame and add other combs of brood just being capped, so 
that later on as many good nuclei as possible may be made 
up from these stocks. 
Or the same collection of young bees and brood may be 
placed in the cellar for two days, and the prepared cells 
given the third evening, when setting them out on anew 
stand. 
Queen Rearing under the Swarming Impulse 
is a plan that should not be adopted, though frequently 
recommended. The bee-keeper should do all he can to 
avoid rearing queens under the swarming impulse. More- 
over, stocks kept up to this state are a great annoyance to 
