. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. XIV JUNE, 1904. No. 6 QUEEX REARING. The Method Used by a Texas Breeder. By Johu W. PhaiT. OUR way to prepare a colony for cell-building is to remove the queen and all the brood, and two hours later give them prepared cell-Clips, or else transfer the larvae into the lower cells of a newly drawn comb. We prefer the former, how- ever, as they are better to handle. We use the Doolittle plan, not because it is better than the Alley or Atchley sys- tem, but because it is more convenient. In order to get good cells and a lot of them built, there mu
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Vol. XIV JUNE, 1904. No. 6 QUEEX REARING. The Method Used by a Texas Breeder. By Johu W. PhaiT. OUR way to prepare a colony for cell-building is to remove the queen and all the brood, and two hours later give them prepared cell-Clips, or else transfer the larvae into the lower cells of a newly drawn comb. We prefer the former, how- ever, as they are better to handle. We use the Doolittle plan, not because it is better than the Alley or Atchley sys- tem, but because it is more convenient. In order to get good cells and a lot of them built, there must be a honey flow on, or else it is necessary to feed your colony from two days previous, to four days after the operation is per- formed. By this time the cells will be sealed and you can transfer them to the nursery cages or give them a lay- ing queen. But, before giving the lay- ing queen you should give them a frame of cell-cups or a newly drawn comb which has been grafted with lar- vae from your breeder. This should be done twenty-four hours before giv- ing the queen. They will begin feed- ing the larvae much sooner than will a colony just made queenless. Now go to another colony that you ?wish to set to cell-building and take ' away its queen and brood and bring it to this colony, and take lae frame of cells which they have started to the colony from which you took the brood and queen. By this means, the colony has been queenless but five days. After getting a lot of good cells built, the next thing is to care for them. Our cell cages are prepared as follows: Take a strip of wood, three- fourths by one-half inch and cut length to fit between end-bars of brood frame. Now cut half way through the strip saw kerfs to make twenty com- partments, which are separated by partitions made of section material and fitted into the saw kerfs. Now cut a piece of wire cloth to nt eacn side. To provision these you can bore a hole in each compartment and use soft candy; or you can shave a
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