. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. 21, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 43 sibly mix. Then cover over the lop, first with a suitalile piece of some kind of cloth. (I cover all hives with something under the wooden cover.) Then as soon as these queen-cells hatch out, and tht-y are fertilized and begin laying, I can dispose of them as I please—intro- duce her to a colony of natives by removing first their queen and then add another queen-cell to this same nucleus, and continue as long as desired the same process, keeping an eye to removing the brood when it accumulates too much
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Jan. 21, 1904. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 43 sibly mix. Then cover over the lop, first with a suitalile piece of some kind of cloth. (I cover all hives with something under the wooden cover.) Then as soon as these queen-cells hatch out, and tht-y are fertilized and begin laying, I can dispose of them as I please—intro- duce her to a colony of natives by removing first their queen and then add another queen-cell to this same nucleus, and continue as long as desired the same process, keeping an eye to removing the brood when it accumulates too much in this nucleus. All my hives uoii' are size, with Laugstroth frames. I have a few, however, of my old pattern, the frames of which are ,'hat I thought of using for nuclei especially, instead of the standard size. But here develops one trouble in that case; Suppose colony No. 1, that we have been discussing thus far. is in a standard- size hive, and it sent out a swarm, and I propose to form a nucleus out of the parent colony after it has sent out a young swarm. In that case won't I have to convert the colony (although of standard size) into nucleus form, as above mentioned J 2. My apiary is located in an orchard, and faces northeast, and is nofth from my dwelling, say 100 yards. I desire to place 5 Italian and one Carniolan colony south of the residence, facing southeast, with the dwelling and some large trees between them and the apiary gener- ally, so the natural flight of these will be southeast, and that of the general apiary northeast. Out of these 5 Italians and 1 Carniolan I wish to rear all the queens with which to Italianize the whole apiary. Do you think these 6 colonies will furnish drones sufficient! and will those drones not be most likely to meet those young queens on their wedding-flight before the drones of the apiary would, with this condi- tion of things? While I know it is not a certain thing, by any means, would it not be very likt'ly,
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