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This book is the second edition of a popular and practical guide for those who want to grow a few or many queens. Queen rearing has been in practice for over a century. It is an art which requires patience, skill, and a steady hand. Whether you grow one, ten, or a thousand queens, you mush have a thorough knoweldge of the life history of the queen and how she differs from a worker bee. The queen is the most important individual in the colony. She lays egges and produces the chemical substances that regulate social order in the hive. How well she does these things depends upon her physical condition, and this, in turn, depends upon the circumstances under which she is reared. The beekeeper who raises queens has a distinct advantage by producing better queens. Inglés