>methods best suited for a someone
>trying to raise perhaps a  dozen queens for the first time

In discussion with someone recently, they told me of a very different  method.
Pick the hive from which you what the cells
Remove the queen
Take one of the frames with lots of brood and eggs and with your hive  tool  
score a deep line right across the length of the frame and put it  back
The bees will supposedly build many a cell with larvae in them right across  
that line.
 
Comments please
 
Walter Zimmermann
Ontario Canada
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