138 QUEENS. 
with a will, haying no earlier or later ones to choose from, 
and im three days all are sealed up. 
«Compare these queens with those raised in hives full 
of brood. I do not claim to get better queens, but may 
I not claim as good, and more uniformly good? Just 
give the nucleus an additional comb of brood of all ages 
the next day, and no convenient place cut for queen cells, 
and they would start but few. There are too many young 
bees to be cared for, like the full stock. Many of those 
started would be neglected. Have I made it clear that 
nurses and brood can be economically adjusted ? 
«When the young queen has commenced laying, and 
has been removed, new brood can not be given to the bees 
and they be expected to rear as many more queens wil- 
lingly. They should have some of the cells ready made, 
given them, making themselves useful in carmg for 
queens until they lay. Whenever another batch of cells 
is wanted, introduce another supply of nurse-bees, and 
work as before.” 
ANOTHER METHOD. 
There is another method of rearing queens, which in 
many respects I prefer to the one just described. I prac- 
tice both, yet, considering all essential features, I have a 
preference for frames uniform in size with those in the 
hive, for all operations, as thus honey and bees can usu- 
ally be more conveniently supplied. Yet, if the small 
nucleus boxes are used, honey may be secured in the flush 
of the season by furnishing the small frames filled with 
empty comb or foundation, to these boxes, after removing 
such as have been filled with honey. I have often been 
able to obtain a large number of such combs well filled 
and capped over, which I have saved with proper care, 
until wanted for similar purposes the following season. 
The full-sized frames for nuclei are preferable because 
the bees used to rear the queens are of value, if swarms 
