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<strong>Better</strong> <strong>Queens</strong> <strong>by</strong> <strong>Jay</strong> <strong>Smith</strong><br />

Queen Alice…18<br />

<strong>Queens</strong> Reared <strong>by</strong> the Emergency Method…18<br />

Dr. Miller's Method…19<br />

Artificial Queen Rearing-Its Development…20<br />

G.M. Doolittle…20<br />

The Grafting Method…21<br />

The Desire for <strong>Better</strong> Cells Intensified…22<br />

Fifteen Years of More Work…22<br />

What the American Bee Journal Has to Say About Poor <strong>Queens</strong>…23<br />

Yes, We Need to Know More…23<br />

Experiments…24<br />

The Alley System…24<br />

Cells Built From New Combs…25<br />

On the Road to Success…26<br />

Hurrah! Success at Last…26<br />

The Difference Between a Queen and a Worker…26<br />

One of the Great Miracles of Nature…27<br />

The Worker Bee as Fully Developed a Female as the Queen…28<br />

For Best Results Follow Nature…29<br />

Shortcomings of the Grafting Method…30<br />

What Promised to be a Bright Idea Proved to be Very Dim…32<br />

Bees in All Stages of Development from Worker to Queen…32<br />

The Mating Flight is Not for Weaklings…33<br />

Sombre Side of the Romance of the Honey Bee…34<br />

Some Complications in the Bees' Domestic Affairs…34<br />

Food and Yet More Food Makes the Perfect Queen…34<br />

Importance of Food for the Young…35<br />

Honey as Food for Man and Bees…36<br />

A Homely Example…37<br />

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