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of comb with eggs on each, but find nothing more simple and 

 practical than the one piece, which gives from ten to twenty 

 cells at a time. 



By the time the prepared comb is ready the broodless and 

 queenless bees will have found out their loss, and being greatly 

 excited are in the best condition possible for starting queen 

 cells. Place a comb or two of stores at each side, and after 

 two or three days add combs of hatching brood to keep up a 

 population of young bees. 



Another Method 



frequently, adopted with great success in my own apiary is 

 that of selecting combs heavily charged with brood on the 

 point of hatching with all the adhering bees — using one from 

 each of eight or nine good colonies, taking care not to remove 

 either queen. Place these combs in a new hive which for 

 convenience should have been carried round in collecting 

 them, and after a few hours, or next day, insert the prepared 

 comb of just hatching larvae near to the centre. The young 

 bees thus congregated (of course, well provided with stored 

 combs of unsealed honey and pollen) will produce some of the 

 finest queens ever seen. Remove all queen cells that may be 

 started on others than the prepared frame and add other 

 combs of brood just being capped, so that latei: on as many 

 good nuclei as possible may be made up. 



The Cell Nursery. 



Where a large niipaber of queens are required, as soon as 

 any queen cells are capped, they are to be removed with 

 adhering bees to another queenless hive retained for this 

 express purpose. 



Mark each frame with the -date of setting the eggs, and 

 allow eleven days before cutting out the cells, that they may 

 remain in the correct temperature of the hive until the last, and 

 yet be certain that none hatch to cause mischief. 



