THE beekeepers' DIRECTdRY. -II3 



edge of bee culture in order to carry on queen-rearing success- 

 fully. If any plan for rearing queens properly comes under the 

 head of simplicity, it is the one given on the following pages 

 and by which queens are reared by no other than in a strictly 

 natural way; 



However, I will give a way for rearing queens by which one 

 can produce good queens, and perhaps is as easy a method 

 for the inexperienced to practise as any yet published. 



A few days before you desire to start queen cells, insert a 

 clean new cemb (say one that has been used two or three 

 times for brood) in the centre of the brood-nest of the coloi!y 

 from whose queen j'ou desire to rear queens'. On the fourth 

 .day after, remove the queen from the colony in which the 

 cells are to be built. Within twenty-four hours, take the 

 frame from the hive in which it was placed for eggs. With a 

 thin, warm knife cut some pieces from the centre of the comb 

 two inches long by half an inch wide just where the eggs have 

 begun to hatch. By making three or four such apertures, 

 about a dozen queen cells will be made. Now remove one of 

 the middle combs from the hive in which the queen had been 

 taken and place the comb of eggs in its place, In eight 

 days remove the comb on which the cells are built and ex- 

 amine the other combs for cells. If any are found destroy 

 them and introduce a queen. 



With the bees adhering to the frame of cells, and two combs 

 of honey, a nucleus for the protection of the cells may be 

 formed. By confining the bees to the hive a day or two, they 

 will not desert the cells if released in the apiary from which 

 they were taken. On the eleventh day after the cells were 

 started they should be transferred to other hives or placed 

 in the nursery. 



Space will not allow us td give in full all the details con- ' 

 nected with queen-rearing. For full particulars for rearing 

 queens, the reader is invited to read the American ApicuUurist 

 beginning with the November, 1888, issue. There will be 

 found the latest and most complete methods for rearing 

 queens. 



Bearing queens in fiill colonies without depriving the bees of 

 their aueen. 



Rearing queens in full colonies while a fertile queen has the full 

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