THE BEABOTO OF QUEEN BEES. 
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the beginner the use of three frames is recommended. When only 
one Is used more bees should be shaken into the box. 
At the end of about six hour- the wooden cell bases are removed 
one at a time, using an extra base as a plug to prevent tin- escape of 
any of the bees, and into each base is placed a little royal jelly and a 
very young larva from the colony of the breeding queen. It is not 
absolutely necessary to use royal jelly at this time, for if enough of 
the larval food be transferred from the worker cell with the larva to 
Fig. 7. — Swarm box from below, with top of lid. A blank bar is in place in one slot, a* used when 
only sixteen cells are to be started original |. 
keep it moist for a short time, the confined bees will secrete royal jelly 
so rapidly that the larvae will neither dry up nor starve. However. 
in every-day manipulation it may he better to use a very little royal 
jelly, and the small amount of extra time required for this i-. in the 
hands of most manipulator-, generally repaid by tin 1 fact that more 
cells are accepted. The cell bases now containing larvae having all 
been replaced, tin 4 swarm box is covered with a quilt to keep the cells 
warm and is put away until the next morning, at which time the box 
