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MONEY IN BEES IN AUSTRALASIA 



During the swarming season the cells may be placed 

 in the super of any strong colony if it is separated from 

 the queen by an excluder. Two frames of young unsealed 

 larva:" should previously be placed in the super, one on 

 each side of the wax cups. This entices the nurse bees 

 upstairs so that the queen-cells are not deprived of food. 



Fig. 54. Queen-cups, and sealed Qviecn-cells. 



SUPERSEDITRE CONDITION.S. 

 Any portion of a hive with a little In'ood, shut off 

 from the (|ueen, gives the nurse bees the imiiression that 

 the brood must be getting less, and since no fresh eggs 

 are dei)osited, the queen must be failing. They then 

 decide to rear a young (pieen to supjilant the failing 

 mother. It is a good thing to liear this in mind whilst 

 engaged in any queen-i-earing operations. 



THE LATEST OR PRATT SCHEME. 



Latterly, a highqiressure system of queen-rearing 

 has l)een given to the a])icultural world ))y an American 

 named Pratt, widely known among bee-keeiiers as 

 "Swathmore." To get queen-cells built he "borrows" 



