[log in to unmask] asked "for information on queen raising without
the use of grafting."

Some may answer "Walk-away Splits", but I opine the best anser to this
question will be found in C.C. Miller's _50_Years_Among_the_Bees_ .  The
Miller Method of raising bees involved giving the bees an almost empty frame
with two points of foundation attached to the top bar.  The points are
attached approximately 2/5 and 4/5 on the top bar.  Given to the bees, they
will start working these points, and the queen will eventually lay eggs the
drawn cells.  When the queen has laid in the cells, but before the points
get fully drawn to be attached to the bottom bar, the beekeeper removes this
frame, and cuts all the eggs from the bottom of the combs (the points will
now have been drawn into two semi-circles of comb).  Cutting out the eggs,
leaves the first hatched larvae on the edge of the semi circles, which are
the ideal age from which to raise queens.  Given to a queenless cell
builder, the bees will build anywhere from 7 to 15 (give or take) beautiful
queen cells at the edges of the comb.  These cells can be harvested and
given to mating nuclei.

This is a cursory description of Miller's method.  I recommend reading his
book for the whole process.  Writtrn in 1915, it is not an easy book to
find.  Fortunately, it was one of the first ten digitized at "The Hive and
the Honeybee" project at the Mann Library at Cornell University.
_50_Years..._ and can be viewed online at:
http://bees.library.cornell.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=bees;idno=5017631
The section on queen rearing starts on page 234.

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