THE REARING OF QUEEN BEES. 
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for the prospective queen breeder to study the problem. The ideal 
nursery cage must at the same time be an introducing cage; so that 
from the time when the queen cell is put in until the queen us trans- 
ferred to another hive to be mated, no attention i- necessary except to 
uncover the candy plug to allow the workers to eat the queen out. 
The Stanley cage, consisting of a cylinder of perforated zinc, will do 
Fig. 10. — " Swarthmore " nursery, with queens. Two cells removed to show construction (original >. 
very well, provided it is modified so that it van he used as an intro- 
ducing cage, but it is awkward and not easily handled in a hive. The 
long West cell protector is also good, except that it is not so conven- 
ient for introducing and does not fit into any bar, but must be stuck 
on a comb, it ma}' also be added that any cell protector is worse than 
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Fig. 11.— "Swarthmore" nursery dissected (original). 
useless where artificial cells are used. Where the old method o\' cut- 
ting natural cells from colonies and transferring these cells to queenless 
colonies is practiced, a cell protector is desirable and almost necessary, 
since the workers in repairing the cut edges o\' comb often gnaw 
entirely into the cell and kill the queen. The author has never known 
this to happen on artificial cells. The Titoff cage (tig. 9) is also very 
