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Caging ^ueen- Cells. 



filled with water through a hole at the top. Each nursery 

 may hold from six to eight frames. Some prefer to have 

 special frames for this nursery, each of which contains sev- 

 eral close chambers. The queen cells are cut out and put 

 in these chambers. It is claimed that with no food the 

 queens will not attack each other, and so several cells may 

 be put in each chamber. 



By use of a common kerosene lamp placed under this 

 nursery, the temperature must be kept from 80° F. to 100° 

 F. By placing the frames with capped queen-cells in this, 

 the queens develop as well as if in a hive or nucleus. If 

 the young queens, just from the cell, are introduced into a 



Fig. 95. 



queenless colony or nucleus, as first shown by Mr. Lang- 

 stroth, they are usually well received. Unless one is rear- 

 ing a great many queens, this lamp nursery is not desirable, 

 as we still have to use the nucleus to get the young queens 

 fecundated, have to watch carefully to get the young queens 

 as soon as they appear, must guard it carefully as moths 

 are apt to get in, and, finally, unless great pains are taken, 

 this method will give us inferior queens. Mr. W. Z. 

 Hutchinson, one of our best queen-breeders, thinks very 

 highly of the lamp nursery. 



Some bee-keepers use a cage (Fig. 95) with projecting 

 pms which are pushed into the comb, so that they hold the 



