. Rearing queen bees in Porto Rico. Bees Puerto Rico. 8 maintain a colony or two of Carniolans in the apiary simply "as nurse bees for the queens of the more generally desirable Italian strain. In case this is done, care must be taken to use drone traps, or unde- sirable crosses will occur. THE SWARM BOX. The acceptance of artificial queen cells can be facilitated by the use of the swarm box, which takes advantage of the fact that in cramped quarters bees acquire the cell building impulse, and that under this impulse they rear queens in large numbers. A box with a wire screen bottom to pr
. Rearing queen bees in Porto Rico. Bees Puerto Rico. 8 maintain a colony or two of Carniolans in the apiary simply "as nurse bees for the queens of the more generally desirable Italian strain. In case this is done, care must be taken to use drone traps, or unde- sirable crosses will occur. THE SWARM BOX. The acceptance of artificial queen cells can be facilitated by the use of the swarm box, which takes advantage of the fact that in cramped quarters bees acquire the cell building impulse, and that under this impulse they rear queens in large numbers. A box with a wire screen bottom to provide ventilation is made to hold five frames (see fig. 4), but it is supplied with only three frames, alternating. Fig. 3.—" Swarthmore " incubator in frame. The metal supports at the upper ends of the side pieces of the frame do not show. (After Fhillips.) spaces the width of a frame being left. The frames used should be well supplied with stores, one (with empty comb) having water. The top of the box is removable and has two slats corresponding to the spaces between the frames within the box. Into these slats the cell bars fit. The empty cell bars, or plain strips of wood, are placed in the slats, and bees are shaken into the box (without a queen, of course) in sufficient numbers to fill it more completely than is usual in a hive. If this is done in the morning, a majority of nurse bees will be assured, for most of the field bees will be abroad. In about six hours the young larvae are transferred to artificial bases which are substituted one by one for the slat bars. By the next day the drawing out of artificial cells will have been begun. The bees are then shaken out in front of their old hive and the cells on bars hung in any convenient colony to be Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble th
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