ROFAL BROOD. 



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keeper will gain an opportunity of seeing the bees set 

 about their wonderful process of raising a queen] from 

 the brood thus provided for them. 



When a bee-keeper has become skilful in his calling, 

 he maybe desirous to encourage the breeding of queens, 

 or rather of preventing their destruction. He will seek 

 to use the propagating instincts of the worker-bees as 

 a set-off against that innate hatred of rivalry which 

 prompts the reigning queen to kill the tender royal brood. 



An ingenious little contrivance has been brought into 

 use by continental bee-keepers, especially by HerrKleine, 



a German pastor, to prevent the destruction alluded to. 

 It consists of a small wire cage (in fact, a pipe cover), as 

 represented in the above engraving, placed over a 



