. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 470 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, July : CONDUCTED BY DR. C. C. AIILLBR. Mareng-o, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.—Editor.] Blacks and Italians in the Same Hive. I Italianized a colony of black bees in October, 1898, and I thought thej- were all right, but when I esatniiied them the past spring I found about -, of them were pure Italians, and '5 pure blacks. There is not a h^-brid in the hive. I have been keeping be
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 470 AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, July : CONDUCTED BY DR. C. C. AIILLBR. Mareng-o, III. [The Questions may be mailed to the Bee Journal office, or to Dr. Miller direct, when he will answer them here. Please do not ask the Doctor to send answers by mail.—Editor.] Blacks and Italians in the Same Hive. I Italianized a colony of black bees in October, 1898, and I thought thej- were all right, but when I esatniiied them the past spring I found about -, of them were pure Italians, and '5 pure blacks. There is not a h^-brid in the hive. I have been keeping bees for IS years, and I have never seen anything like it before. Virginia. Answer.—The first cross between blacks and Italians are by no means a uniform lot, but part of them are in ap- pearance Italians and part are black. So what you have observed is the rule and not the exception for they^'/'i/cross. With later crosses the appearance of the workers becomes more uniform, showing one or two bands on each bee. Transferring Bees from Box-Hives. How can I transfer bees from box-hives into new frame hives ? The combs in the old box-hives seem to be in every shape and form. Wisconsin. Answer.—How to transfer has been askt for several times in the past few months, and in each case it was re- plied that the text-book should be consulted, for this de- partment is merely intended to supplement the text-book without going over all the ground contained therein. It may be said, however, that you may do better not to trans- fer now but to leave the bees where they are till time of fruit-bloom next year. With combs " in every shape and form ?' in the box-hive, it may not be very satisfactory to try to fasten them in the frames of the new hive. Perhaps the better way will be to leave the bees in the box-hive till they swarm, hive the swarm in the new hive, then 21 days later all the worker-brood will have emerged, and the old hive can be knockt to pieces. Mating and Laying of ttuee
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