. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May. 191?.. 159 American Vae Journal winter months, ss it is very likely to cause a lot of damage. At this date, April 4, I have not trou- bled to look inside of a liive aside from lifting the quilt at the back to see that there was sealed honey. Any ex- amination more than this would do no good, and might result in balled queens. flow, but the later honey-flows should aid materially. Bee-Keeping In Dixie^ Conducted by J. J. Wilder. Cordele. Ga. How to Keep Pure Stock Supers and "I havel4coloniesof mixed bees, and I would like to keep pure Italia
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. May. 191?.. 159 American Vae Journal winter months, ss it is very likely to cause a lot of damage. At this date, April 4, I have not trou- bled to look inside of a liive aside from lifting the quilt at the back to see that there was sealed honey. Any ex- amination more than this would do no good, and might result in balled queens. flow, but the later honey-flows should aid materially. Bee-Keeping In Dixie^ Conducted by J. J. Wilder. Cordele. Ga. How to Keep Pure Stock Supers and "I havel4coloniesof mixed bees, and I would like to keep pure Italians. It I buy queens, how must I handle them to keep them from mating with drones I have now ? Also, is it best to keep one or two supers on the hive ?" Gonzales, Tex. Joe Gr.\.-^se. Italian stock of bees is hard to keep pure, and to keep them so you will have to look after them very closely. Buy tested golden queens, one for each colony, and introduce them according to directions. If you are successful you will have pure stock for tliis sea- son, for the queens are already mated, and your black drones can have no ertect on your stock. Your next sea- son's drones will be pure. When the bees begin swarming you will have young pure queens, and they will be purely mated provided there is no more black stock near you. If there is, your young pure queens are liable to be mated with them. The progeny will be a cross. But if you get the best yellow stock obtainable, this cross will not show up much the first gen- eration. The next cross will, and col- onies containing such queens will have to be replaced with pure stock again. If you stock with the goldens I be- lieve you would also like the first cross. It is always best to have more su- pers in readiness than you think you will need, and not only give your bees two supers, but as many as five or six if they should need them. This can best be done by raising the supers they have and slipping another under, next to the brood-nest,
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