322 A Modern Bee-Farm 
disregarded by queen-rearers generally, as they have adopted 
the blunt rounded base as found in old dark combs. 
Inverting Cell-bases—No Flanges. 
The original cell-cups were attached by looped wire, but 
in the following year I used rows of circular openings cut in 
my revolving bars, and in these the cell-cups fit just tight. 
From the first I rejected the idea of having a flange such as 
others have since adopted. In this case the cell must be 
withdrawn upwards, although the queen-cell may be, as it 
often is, widened beyond the diameter of the opening, 
necessitating more trimming than if the cell had to be cut 
away from the combs. 
Inverting Cell-bases. 
Now the Author’s cell-cups, having no flange, may be 
inverted, so that the plain ends may be used early and late 
in the season for attaching the single worker cells without 
disturbing the eggs or larve therein. 
See the methods of cutting the combs crosswise for 
obtaining single worker or drone cells. This plan will 
assume far greater importance in the eyes of the Reader 
when I assert that 
Longevity—the Great Desideratum— 
can only be ensured where the apiarist, in addition to 
selecting his most desirable stock for breeding, determines 
to rear his queens from the eggs, or such larve as may be 
just hatched, and consequently too small for transferring 
with any certainty of the bees not rejecting them. 
The Cell Nursery. 
Where a large number of queens are required, as soon as 
any queen cells are capped, they are to be removed with 
adhering bees to another queenless hive retained for this 
express purpose within a convenient bee-house. 
