. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. QUEEN-RE AEING. 351 QUEEN-REARING. 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 compressed cups. Other cups are treated in the same way until the whole series of cells is provisioned. If one should run short of compressed cups he can, with a keen-edged knife, cut ofi: the old cell, from which the queen has hatch- ed, even wit
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. QUEEN-RE AEING. 351 QUEEN-REARING. 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 compressed cups. Other cups are treated in the same way until the whole series of cells is provisioned. If one should run short of compressed cups he can, with a keen-edged knife, cut ofi: the old cell, from which the queen has hatch- ed, even with the wood, and then with the plunger-stick ream out the hole in the cell-. nnr LIFTING A LARVA OUT OF A WOKKER-CELL. holder. This hole can be grafted in the manner already explained; but it will be found preferable to use the compressed cups, as better results will thus be secured. The next operation is to take a comb of very young larvae, just hatched, from a breed- ing queen. In an atmosphere not cooler than 75 or 80 degrees (the warmer the bet- ter) a young larva is scooped or lifted up out of a worker-cell with the flattened end of the grafting tool, and deposited in the royal jelly of one of the compressed cups, and so on until all the cups are grafted. And just here it is proper to remark that this royal jelly serves a double purpose. It alfords a downy bed, so to speak, in which to lay tlie 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 we get more cells accepted with it. Some queen-breeders say that a frame of these cells may now be put in the upper story of a strong colony, the two stories be- ing separated by a perforated zinc honey- board. (See Extractors.) While such up- per stories can be used with advantage to complete cells that the bees of a queenless colony have already accepted, we find them practically worthless for starting them. While an ordinary queenless colony supp
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