Queen Rearing Simplified

Chapter I. Importance of Good Queens. 1 Chapter II. Conditions Under Which the Bees Rear Queens. 4 Supersedure Method. 7 Queens Reared Under the Swarming Impulse. 7 Chapter III. Queen Rearing for the Small Beekeeper 10 The Grafting Method. 12 Chapter IV. Rearing Queens on a Large Scale 14 Headwork. 14 Chapter V. Dipping Cells. 15 Suggestions in Making Cell Cups. 20 Chapter VI. Royal Jelly. 21 Chapter VII. The Swarm Box. 24 Chapter VIII. Getting the Bees in Condition for Cell Building. 27 Chapter IX. Cell Finishing Colonies. 30 Chapter X. Filling the Swarm Box. 34 The Dungeon. 37 Why the Bees Accept the Cells. 37 Chapter XI. Grafting the Cell Cups. 39 Digression. 44 Reasons of Success. 44 Chapter XII. Emptying the Swarm Box. 46 Chapter XIII. The Pritchard Forced Cell Starting Colony. 48 A Modification of the Doolittle Plan. 49 Chapter XIV. Our Daily Program. 53 Program for the Week. 53 Chapter XV. Nucleus Hives 55 Entrance Blocks for Nuclei. 58 Shade. 59 Chapter XVI. Virgin or Cell Introduction. 60 The Cell Protector a Hindrance. 62 Chapter XVII. Cell Introduction 68 Chapter XVIII. Why Nuclei Tear Down Cells. 72 Chapter XIX. Forming Nuclei 75 Number of Swarm Boxes Needed. 79 Chapter XX. Misfortunes of the Queen-breeder. 81 Chapter XXI. Records for the Nucleus Hives 84 Chapter XXII. Care of Nuclei. 90 Honey in Nuclei. 90 Laying Workers in Nuclei. 90 Laying Queens and How Injured. 91 Chapter XXIII. Mailing Cages. 92 Chapter XXIV. Queen Candy. 95 Receipt for Making Invert Sugar. 97 Making the Candy. 98 Chapter XXV. Caging Queens. 100 The Question of Cataleptic Queens. 101 Chapter XXVI. Clipping Queens' Wings. 103 Chapter XXVII. Introducing Queens. 110 Loss in Introducing with the Mailing Cages. 111 The Doolittle Cage. 113 The Miller Cage. 114 The Push-in-the-Comb Cage. 114 Our Introducing Cage. 116 Reasons for Acceptance. 119 Introducing Queens to Laying Workers. 119 Emerging (or Hatching) Brood Method. 120 Unsatisfactory Modification. 121 A Common Cause of Failure in Queen Introduction. 121 Why Queens Die in the Mailing Cage. 122 Chapter XXVIII. Disposing of Nuclei at Close of Season. 123 Packing Cases for Nuclei. 125 Chapter XXIX. Care of Combs 126 Chapter XXX. Supplementary Topics. 127 Queen-Rearing for the Honey Producer. 127 Queen-Rearing from Commercial Cell Cups. 127 Requeening. 128 Uniting Bees. 130 Uniting Laying Worker Colonies. 131 Making Increase. 131 Mending Damaged Combs. 132 Chapter XXXI. Requeening Colonies About to Swarm. 135 Hive Body Used as Nucleus. 135 Chapter XXXII. Feeding and Feeders. 137 Preparing the feed for winter. 138 Chapter XXXIII. Requeening to Cure European Foul Brood. 140 American Foul Brood. 141 Chapter XXXIV. Finishing Cells in Queenless Colonies. 143 Finishing Cells While Requeening. 143 Chapter XXXV. Cell Building During a Heavy Honey Flow. 145 Cell-Building at the Close of the Honey Flow. 146 Chapter XXXVI. The Quality of Queens. 148 Chapter XXXVII. Drones. 151 Chapter XXXVIII. More Than One Queen in a Hive. 152 Chapter XXXIX. When to Requeen. 155 How Often to Requeen. 156 Chapter XL. Commercial Queen-Rearing. 158