RAISING QUEEN BEES 



stroyed, as would be the case if they were all 

 permitted to hatch in one compartment. If 

 the colony to which the cells have been given 

 for completion is a strong one, and is occupy- 

 ing two brood bodies one above the other, it 

 will be a very simple matter to place the queen 

 down in the lower brood body, and between 

 it and the upper story a queen-excluding zinc, 

 which keeps her below; in this case as many 

 as three bars of cells can be given to the upper 

 story, each bar being put in the holding frame 

 without the incubator cage. 



When the cells are about twelve days old 

 from the time the egg was laid, remove them, 

 and put each one by itself in one of the little 

 nursery cages. As many as forty-eight of these 

 little cages can be secured firmly in an empty 

 frame, and the frame given back to the strong 

 colony to keep warm until the virgin queens 

 shall hatch, which will be in sixteen days 

 from the time the eggs were laid. 



There is a little compartment in each of the 

 nursery cages in which should be placed a 



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