CHAPTER XII. 
REARING AND INTRODUCING QUEENS. 
N commencing to rear queens, you will first want 
some small rearing boxes, or miniature hives, about 
four and one-half inches wide, by eight inches long, and 
five inches deep, inside measurement. Use inch board 
for the hives. Make for each hive three moveable comb 
frames,* suspended the same as in the brood section of 
the Controllable Hive. Make the under side of the top 
bar flat, instead of triangular, as in the large comb 
frames. Take a piece of old comb, and cut to fill each 
one of the small frames. Take from a pint to a quart 
of bees in a populous stock (in the height of the breed- 
ing season this will do harm) without the queen. Con- 
fine the bees in a light box, in the top of which there is an 
inch hole, closed to confine them to the box, for if not con- 
fined they would return to the old stock, as the queen is not 
with them. Having secured your bees in the box, go to a 
stock and lift out a comb containing eggs, just deposited. 
They may be known by theirappearance. They are buta 
tiny speck at the bottom of the cell, about one-sixteenth of 
an inch in length, slightly curved and perfectly white in 
*This frame is shown in the engraving, representing the different kinds of 
cells, in Chapter I. 
