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FIFTY YEARS AMONG THE BEES 



i'or queen-rearing until about the time that bees inclined to 

 swarming' -woulfl begin to make preparations tliei'efor. 



REARING QUEENS IN HIVE WITH LAYING QUEEN. 



It would be too long a story to enumerate all the plans I 

 have used in queen-rearing. I have reared excellent queens, 

 and many of Ihera, by the Alley plan and by the Doolittle cell- 

 cup plan, together with is modifications by Pridgen, and others. 



Fig. SO^Cleated Smoker. 



I think I was tlie fii'st one to report rearing- a queen in a colony 

 having a laying queen ; and I have reared them in stories under 

 as well as over the story having the laying queen. Neither is 

 it absolutely necessary to have a queen-excluder between the 

 stories. In lieu of an excluder T have used a cloth with room 

 for passage at the corners. Neither excluder nor cloth is abso- 

 lutely necessary; distance is enough. That first reported case 

 was on this wise : 



