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(1) Transferring the larvae. (2) Putting "royal jelly" in cell cups. 

 (3) Cell bars in frame. (4) Old cells to be used again. 



To allow easier handling and to lessen the possible injury of the 

 queen cells, as is often the ease when these are cut from the combs, 

 "cell cups" are prepared by repeatedly dip- 

 ping a moulding stick iato melted wax. 

 These cell cups are attached, with melted 

 wax, not quite an inch apart, to a horizontal 

 bar that can be placed in a brood frame. A 

 little "royal jelly," found in the bottoms 

 of queen cells, is smeared in the bottom of 

 the cups, and worker larvae just hatching 

 from the eggs are transferred by the aid of 

 a toothpick, a quill or a special transferring 

 Bpoon to the bottom of these cell cups. Thi^ 

 transferring must be done very carefully, 

 liowever, so as not to injure the little larvae. 

 With some queen rearers, the placing of the 

 Toyal jelly in the bottoms of the cells is 

 ■deemed unnecessary, as there is no differ- 

 ence in the quality of the queens reared 

 either way. The prepared frame is then 

 "hung in a colony preparing to swarm or to supersede its queen, 



