278 COMMERCIAL QUEEN REARING. 



cages, covered with wire cloth on each side and inserted in 

 a frame. Each cage has two holes at the top, one for a sponge 

 saturated with honey, the other to receive the queen-cell. The 

 frame is inserted in a strong colony, not necessarily queenless, 



Fig. 109. 



ROW OF QUEEN CELLS. 



(From Alley.) 



since these young queens are caged, and have feed at hand 

 when they hatch. 



The latest style of queen nursery is shown on plate 19. 



The Doolittle JIethod. 



530. Since the foregoing was written, the breeding of 

 queens for sale has taken a new impetus. Mr. G. M. Doolittle, 

 of New York, devised a method by which it does not become 

 necessaiy for man to wait for the action of bees in rearing 



