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i).7 Rearing and changing Queens. Cutting out and 
inserting Queen cells, /ntroduclion nf strange Queens and 
Queen cells. 
».70 Generalilies. 
)).71 Favourable lime for rearing Queens. 
11.72 How to obtain royal cells. Rules for choosing the same : 
how to remove and insert them in the combs. 
■'.73 Introduction of royal cells and Queens in hives. 
».74 Various methods of rearing Queens. 
».74l Rapid methods for small apiaries. 
».742 Method for substituting a Queen for an infirm one. 
».743 By means of nuclei. 
».744 With Queen nurseries. 
B.745 Various methods. 
».75 Favourable season for changing the Queen. 
».8 Formation of stocks. Natural and artificial swarms ; 
hiving and treatment; methods of preventing swarming. 
Means of limiting the number of stocks. Improving the. 
race. Seletion of breeds. 
».80 Generalities. ' 
».81 Natural swarms. 
».811 First swarm. 
».812 After swarms or casts. 
».8'2 Taking swarms and how to hive them. 
».83 Uniting swarms. 
».84 Artificial swarms. 
».840 Generalities. 
».841 By flying bees from other hives. 
».842 By means of various frames of brood and bees, taken 
from several hives. 
».843 By division. 
».844 By brushing off' bees from combs. 
».845 By means of nuclei and other weak stocks. 
».846 By natural swarming. 
».849 Various. 
».85 Cure to bo bestowed on hives which have swarmed and 
on swarms. 
