ILLUSTRATIONS 



Queen, drone and worker Title page 



Queen cells built under the swarming impulse _ Fig. 1 



A large average production is only secured by careful selection— " 2 



Combs built without foundation contain much drone comb " 3 



Full sheets of foundation insure worker combs _ -.._ " 4 



Grafting house in use by southern queen breeders " 5 



Rauchfuss mating box " 6 



A baby nucleus at the Minnesota University " 7 



Small mating hives in the Strong queen yard —. " 8 



Mating hives using shallow extracting frames _ _ " 9 



Eight frame hive adapted for four compartment mating hive " 10 



Eight frame hive divided into three parts, with standard frames " 11 



Ten frame hive divided into two parts " 12 



Feeding with Mason jars at the Penn yards _ " 13 



The Alley Nursery Cage " 14 



The Rauchfuss Nursery Cage " 15 



Frame for holding Rauchfuss Cages _ " 16 



Comb cut down for cell-building by Alley plan " 17 



Every alternate egg is crushed by Alley plan " 18 



Queen cells by Alley plan _ __ " 19 



Batch of finished cells grafted with drone comb " 20 



Cutting away cells built on drone comb. _ " 21 



Cell block for handling finished cells _ " 22 



Queen cells built naturally by Miller plan _._ " 23 



Frame for holding comb for cell building by Case method. -- " 24 



Frame of prepared cups by Doolittle method " 25 



Batch of finished cells by Doolittle method.. " 26 



Larvae not to exceed thirty-six hours of age should be used for 



grafting " 27 



Strong colonies should be used for cell-building. " 28 



Strong cell-finishing colony " 29 



Finished cells by the Doolittle method " 30 



Method of placing ripe cell in nucleus which has no brood.. " 31 



Cell protectors " 32 



A queen mating yard composed of standard hives " 33 



A queen-rearing apiary in Tennessee " 34 



Queen mating nuclei under the pine trees of Alabama " 35 



The Benton mailing cage " 36 



The Miller introducing cage.. " 37 



A Mississippi queen-rearing yard " 38 



A Georgia queen-rearing apiary " 39 



A queen yard in Minnesota— " 40 



