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Mark each frame with the date of setting the eggs, and 
allow ten days before removing the cells, that they may 
remain in the correct temperature of the hive until the last, 
and yet be certain that none hatch to cause mischief. 
Our cells, therefore, are not removed until the queens are 
almost at maturity, and now they are to be placed in the 
Queen Nursery. 
The best plan that can possibly be devised is that of 
using the cage (Fig. 64), which is placed over the queen or 
queen cells, where both honey and pollen are to be seen in 
the cells; in this case the queens need little attention, and 
always feed in the most natural manner. Where hatched 
in other nurseries, they should at once be placed over 
natural stores in this manner, as no other plan of feeding 
them will compensate for the loss of pollen. 
The Lamp Nursery 
is frequently used and is invaluable for hatching queens. 
It consists of double walls and bottom of copper, with stays 
inside to keep the water from bulging out the sides; and 
the internal capacity is large enough to take some half- 
dozen brood frames, with plenty of lateral space to spare. 
What might be added with benefit are small holes punched 
through near the upper inner margin of the copper wall to 
give moisture. The lid must be of wood covered with 
warm material, and if the whole is cased in wood, with the 
exception of an opening above the lamp, the temperature 
will be more even, and a very small flame will suffice to 
keep the chamber at about 95°, the boiler being filled in 
the first place with water at about 100°. The frames are 
placed in as the cells near maturity, and the young queens 
are removed as fast as they gnaw their way out; being 
retained in the tube cages in the first instance. 
Let me ask those who use the hanging-frame nursery if 
