ILLUSTRATIONS. 
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Fig. 1. Standard frame with bar of completed cells on wooden flanged cups 
and bar of Doolittle wax cells 12 
2. Standard frame with bars of queen cells on wooden bases 13 
3. Two-story hive with perforated zinc honey board between the stories, 
the top to he used for queen rearing 13 
4. Swarthmore incubator holding sixteen cells on wooden bases 14 
5. Swarthmore incubator in frame 1 -1 
6. Swarm box, showing position of frames and inner side of lid, with 
wooden cells in place, ready f< >r 1 >ees IB 
7. Swarm box from below, with top of lid- 17 
8. Frame with a strip of foundation only partly drawn out, with larva' 
in cells, cut according to Alley plan of cell starting 19 
9. Titoff nurseries in frame holder, showing construction of nursery 20 
10. Swarthmore nursery, with queens 21 
11. Swarthmore nursery dissected 21 
12. Swarthmore nurseries in frame, showing method of storing forty- 
eight queens 22 
13. A style of cage which answers all the requirements for convenience 
and usefulness as nursery and introducing cage. 22 
14. Swarthmore nucleus with one frame removed to show construction . . 23 
15. Swarthmore nucleus with introducing cage in place between the 
frames 23 
16. Benton mating boxes 26 
17. Benton mailing cages 26 
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