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with a will, having no earlier or later ones to choose frona. 

 and in three days all are sealed up. 



" Compare these queens with those raised in hives full 

 of brood. I do not claim to get better queens, but may 

 I not claim as good, and more uniformly good? Just 

 give the nucleus an additional comb of brood of all ages 

 the next day, and no convenient place cut for queen cells, 

 and they would start but few. There are too many young 

 bees to be cared for, like the full stock. Many of those 

 started would be neglected. Have I made it clear that 

 nurses and brood can be economically adjusted ? 



' ' When the young queen has commenced laying, and 

 has been removed, new brood can not be given to the bees 

 and they be expected to rear as many more queens wil- 

 lingly. They should have some of the cells ready made, 

 given them, making themselves useful in canng for 

 queens until they lay. Whenever another batch of cells 

 is wanted, introduce another supply of nurse-bees, and 

 work as before." 



ANOTHER METHOD. 



There is another method of rearing queens, which in 

 many respects I prefer to the one just described. I prac- 

 tice both, yet, considering all essential features, I have a 

 preference for frames uniform in size with those in the 

 hive, for all operations, as thus honey and bees can usu- 

 ally be more conveniently supplied. Yet, if the small 

 nucleus boxes are used, honey may be secured in the flush 

 of the season by furnishing the small frames filled with 

 •mpty comb or foundation, to these boxes, after removing 

 such as have been filled with honey. I have often been 

 able to obtain a large number of such combs well filled 

 and capped over, which I have saved with proper care, 

 until wanted for similar purposes the following season. 

 The full-sized frames for nuclei are preferable because 

 the bees used to rear the queens are of value, if swarms 



