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prehensive review of them without leaving some confusion in the 
mind of the reader. If, as is commonly believed, the hive odor 
is the means by which the bees recognize the members of a com- 
mon community, the great object to be attained by any method 
is that the new queen shall acquire this peculiar odor as quickly 
as possible. More than twenty years ago it was recommended 
that to assist in accomplishing this result the queen to be removed 
from the colony to be requeened should be confined for a time 
in a cage. She is then removed and the new queen placed in 
this same cage by means of which she is introduced to the colony. 
This method has been reported as very successful by bee-keepers 
for many years past. This is essentially the ordinary cage 
method with the exception that the former queen is confined 
in the saine cage in which her successor is to be introduced for a 
time before she is destroyed and the new queen placed therein. 
When a queen is to be introduced by any of the direct methods 
it will be much help if she is confined by herself for at least 
thirty minutes without food. Being hungry she will at once 
solicit food when she comes in contact with the workers and will 
much more likely be accepted. 
QUEEN REARING 
Although commercial queen rearing is a business by itself 
that would require « volume for exhaustive treatment, the bee- 
keeper’s education is not quite complete until he has learned 
to rear his own queens, even though it may not be advisable 
for him to do so to any extent. Most productive bee-keepers feel 
that they can ill afford the time for extensive queen rearing at 
the busy time of year when they can best be reared, and prefer 
to buy them from some regular breeder. There are times, how- 
ever, when one can rear his own queens to advantage, and it is 
always well to be prepared to supply a limited number for special 
purposes or to meet emergencies. 
Some of the most successful honey producers feel that only 
by breeding from selected stock which has been tested under 
