. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 286 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 14, 1904. 100 rods east of the bee-yard. My Carmolan bees were gathering from a held of pea-beans nelr by-something I have never seen before -bees gathering from bean-tlowers. 1 have my bees in the cellar; they have not bad a flight since the middle of Isovember. This has been a severe winter and rough for ""^^ would like to tell of some of my mistakes in breeding Italian queens. First I bred a young queen late in the fall for the purpose of securing early drones (she was not mated so she laid nothing but
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 286 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. April 14, 1904. 100 rods east of the bee-yard. My Carmolan bees were gathering from a held of pea-beans nelr by-something I have never seen before -bees gathering from bean-tlowers. 1 have my bees in the cellar; they have not bad a flight since the middle of Isovember. This has been a severe winter and rough for ""^^ would like to tell of some of my mistakes in breeding Italian queens. First I bred a young queen late in the fall for the purpose of securing early drones (she was not mated so she laid nothing but drone eggs), I Kept her in the breeding hive, and when I put my bees nto the cellar I placed this l»ve upon a hive of black bees, with a piece of wire-cloth between the two hives. Along in February I took the wire-clolh out so they could go down n the lower hive, and when I placed my bees on the summer stands I "«^«''^ ^'^'^ .f''^^^ mess. She had layed in the worker-cells, and the drones were no longer the worker- bees, and as black as charcoal. She did not take the drone-comb as I thought she would, so I destroyed the queen and drones. (This mistake caused me to mi»k^''°°t^*''„ °°f>-, J bought an Italian queen of Mr. Langstroth, paying him *20 for the queen. Her workers bad one or two bands, and more of her drones were black than yellow banded. I did not consider her a good queen to breed from, so I made a drone-trap by taking a tin tube and inserting one end of it in the hive and the other end in a wire-cloth cage. In this way I captured all the drones from that colony. 1 kept all drones that had yellow bands on the upper part of the abdomen, and gave them to a queenless colony that I had given several queen-cells to, and which they had destroyed I found one opened on the end, and thought 1 had a voung queen tor sure. I wished to see this queen, and would open this hive every time I passed it. After a while I found eggs in the hive, and after a long and
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