CHAPTER VII. 
THE RAISING AND INTRODUCTION OF QUEENS. 
The Feeding of Larvae — Royal Jelly a Misnomer — 
Normal and Emergency Queen-cells — Queens of Low 
and High Type: How Produced — Early Drones— 
Cell-placing in Nuclei — Determining the Position 
of Queen-cells — Alley’s System — Cheshire Nucleus 
Hive — Dividing Frame — Queen Nursery for Hive — 
Lamp ditto — Management of Virgin Queens - — ■ 
Breeding to Points — The Question of Size Con- 
sidered — Breeding out the Swarming Instinct — 
Selection of Drones — Artificial Fertilisation — • 
Queen Introduction — Caging — Chloroforming — 
Direct Introduction. 
In Vol. L, especially at pages 26, 82 et seq., I have 
already devoted much attention to my discoveries of 
the methods adopted by the bees In rearing their 
queens, and it will now be most convenient to 
direct my readers to these passages, contenting my- 
self with a passing reference to those points which 
are vital to the understanding of the exceedingly 
important question now before us. That two kinds 
of eggs only are deposited by the queen has long 
been known ; and It would appear that the Greeks of 
