. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 219. Home Apiary of J. F. Burton, Vail, Iowa. In transferring our eggs or larvae I simply brush and shake the bees off and slip the comb under my coat to keep them nice and warm while going to and from my transferring room, for this room should be good and hot, lOO will do no harm. After we get our cells cleaned and ready we leave them where they are good and warm, going to our cell building colony after our young larvae about 24 hours after, or when the larvae are about 12 hours old. Now note how they have fed those larvae. They
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 219. Home Apiary of J. F. Burton, Vail, Iowa. In transferring our eggs or larvae I simply brush and shake the bees off and slip the comb under my coat to keep them nice and warm while going to and from my transferring room, for this room should be good and hot, lOO will do no harm. After we get our cells cleaned and ready we leave them where they are good and warm, going to our cell building colony after our young larvae about 24 hours after, or when the larvae are about 12 hours old. Now note how they have fed those larvae. They are just float- ing in royal jelly. Again, pick out the ones that have the most jelly and transfer them into your cell cups. You don't need any primed cell cups, you have a good big lot of royal jelly right where you want it. I use a quill to transfer with. A duck quill is the best. Scrape down the quill on one side real thin, cut off the other half with a sharp knife, scrape the end so when you shove it down to the bottom of the cell it will double up and pick about every bit of royal jelly out of the cell. I take a wooden toothpick and just slide the larvae and jelly into the center and bottom of cell. I use the Standard Langstroth frame, not a G frame, as the editor made me say. Now work as fast as you can and get those larvae back to the cell building colony as quick as you can. Don't forget to slip the frame of cells under your coat to keep them nice and warm. Don't be negligent. Now if you can get those cells into that hive before the nurse bees get into those cells to feed those larvae, you can do better than I can. If you have better success by letting the bees clean and shape the cells let them do it for you, as some claim. 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 the original National Bee-keepers' Associ
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