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QUEEN REARING. 



615. The largest number of queen-cells (104) can be 

 obtained by cutting holes into the combs under the cells 

 containing young larvse or eggs, and feeding the bees 

 plentifully. Some Apiarists hold that, by leaving them 

 without brood of any kind for a few hours, they will raise 

 more cells afterwards. 



516. Nine days after the furnishing of the brood to the 

 queenless colony, count the number of queen-cells raised, 

 remembering that one has to be left to the colony that 

 raised them. On the same day, make swarms, (475) or 

 nuclei, (522) or destroy worthless queens 

 (155) which you desire to replace next 

 day. 



517. The next day, with a sharp pen- 

 knife, carefully remove a piece of comb, 

 an inch or more square, that contains a 

 queen-cell (Fig. 89), and in one of the 

 brood combs of the hive to which this cell 

 is to be given, cut a place just large 

 enough to receive and hold it in a natural 

 position. (Fig. 90.) 



Each queenless stock can thus be supplied with a queen, 



Fig. 89. 



QUEEN-CKLL, 



REMOVED. 



Fig. 90. 



{From Graveuhorst.) 



CUTTING OUT AND INSERT- 

 ING QDEBN-CELLS. 



A, Unsealed cell. B, Insert- 

 ed cell. C, tTnflnialied cell. 

 D, Deceptive ceU jnst be 

 gun. 



