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queen-rearing until about the time that bees inclined to swarm- 

 ing would begin to make preparations therefor. 



HEARING QUEEN.S IN HIVE WITH LAYING QUEEN. 



It would be too long a story to enumerate all the plans I 

 ha\-e used in queen-rearing. I have reared excellent queens, and 

 many of them, by the Alley plan and by the Doolittle cell-cup 

 plan, together with its modifications by Pridgen and others. 



Fig. 80. — Cleated Smoker. 



I think I was the first one to report rearing a queen in a colony 

 having a laying queen ; and I have reared them in stories under 

 as well as over the story having the laying queen. Neither is it 

 absolutely necessary to have a quaen-exeluder between the 

 stories. In lieu of an excluder I have used a cloth with room 

 for passage at the corners. Neither excluder nor cloth is abso- 

 lutely necessary; distance is enough. That first reported case 

 was on this wise : 



