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QUEEN-REARING 
is dipped into hot wax and before it cools, 
it is applied to the wooden bar as shown. 
These wooden cell-holders can likewise be 
purchased by the thousand. 
The compressed cups are forced into the 
hole in the cell-holders by means of a little 
plunger-stick. When enough of them have 
been prepared, and secured to a cell-bar 
by being pressed against the under side of 
the cell-bar, they are ready to be grafted. 
This process is much the same as that al¬ 
ready described in the Doolittle method, ex¬ 
cept that a much smaller quantity of royal 
jelly is used, and special tools are provided 
Manner of inserting cell cups in cell-holders. 
for the purpose, these being obtained of 
the dealers. Sufficient royal jelly is gath¬ 
ered up from a series of cells, and the same 
is stirred with a special jelly-spoon. A 
spoonful is then held in the left hand, while 
the right hand uses the grafting-tool to 
take a speck of the royal jelly, about the 
size of the head of a pin. This is then 
placed in the bottom of one of the com¬ 
pressed cups. Other cups are treated in 
the same way until the whole series of cells 
is provisioned. 
The next operation is to take a comb of 
very young larvae, just hatched, from a 
breeding queen. In an atmosphere not 
cooler than 75 or 80 degrees (the warmer 
the better) a young larva is scooped or 
lifted up out of a worker-cell with the flat¬ 
tened end of the grafting-tool, and depos¬ 
ited in the royal jelly of one of the com¬ 
pressed cups. This is repeated until all the 
Cell-holder with cell in place. 
cups are grafted. This royal jelly serves a 
double purpose. It affords a downy bed, 
so to speak, in which to lay the larva, and 
at the same time provides food until the 
bees can give it a fresh supply. Despite 
the claim that royal jelly is not necessary 
one will get more cells accepted by using it. 
GETTING CELLS ACCEPTED AND BUILT OUT. 
The average beginner will probably suc¬ 
ceed best by giving grafted cells to a queen¬ 
less strong colony. In about two days after 
making it queenless a bar of 15 cells (not 
more) inserfed in a frame may be given. 
If no honey is coming in from natural 
sources, the colony should be fed in a man¬ 
ner to be explained. When conditions are 
right, nearly every cell, if not every one of 
them, will be accepted. By “accepted” is 
Hoffman frame with removable bars for cell- 
holders. 
meant that the bees have begun work on 
them, and have added their own royal jelly. 
After being accepted they are given to the 
upper story of a strong colony, with an 
excluder between the two stories, to be 
completed. 
