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RAISING A QUEEN* 6Q 
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in the hive, they are soon able to 
replace her, and in a few hours, com¬ 
mence the labour necessary to repair 
the loss. 
Having chosen a worm, they sa¬ 
crifice three of the contiguous cells: 
next they supply it with a certain 
kind of food called royal jelly, and 
raise a cylindrical inclosure around it, 
by which the cell becomes a perfect 
tube with a rhomboida! bottom, for 
the parts forming the bottom are left 
untouched. This habitation remains 
suitable to the worm called to the 
royal state,only during the first three 
days of its existence. The remaining 
two, it must inhabit a cell nearly of 
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