and its Economic Management. iCi 



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 five or six 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 

 <lay, insert the prepared comb of just hatching larvse near 

 to the centre. The young bees just 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 later on as many good 

 nuclei as possible may be made up from these stocks. 



Or the same collection of young bees and brood may 

 be placed in the cellar for two days, and the prepared cells 

 given the third evening, when setting them out on a new 

 stand. 



Queen Rearing under the Swarming Impulse 



is a plan that should not be adopted, though frequently 

 recommended. The bee-keeper should do all he can to 

 avoid rearing queens under the swarming impulse. More-, 

 over, stocks kept up to this state are a great annoyance to 

 the queen rearer in various ways. They are, of course, 

 not available early and late, but when in season will always 

 be building comb where it is not wanted, and making 

 everything sticky with honey when these combs must 



