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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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