. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 809. answered by Marengo, III. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the '~!0 or more apiarists who help to make ?'Queries and Replies" so interesting on another page. In the main, it will contain questions and answers upon mat- ters that particularly interest beginners.—Ed. Italianizing an Apiary Cheaply. I am starting with 22 colonies of black and mixed bees, bought from farmers near. I wish to Italianize a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 809. answered by Marengo, III. In this department will be answered those questions needing immediate attention, and such as are not of sufficient special interest to require replies from the '~!0 or more apiarists who help to make ?'Queries and Replies" so interesting on another page. In the main, it will contain questions and answers upon mat- ters that particularly interest beginners.—Ed. Italianizing an Apiary Cheaply. I am starting with 22 colonies of black and mixed bees, bought from farmers near. I wish to Italianize all of them as soon as I can, without the ex- pense of buying queens for all of them. Could I practically start with one Italian queen and rear queens myself for the entire lot ? What troubles me is the drones. If I shut up all but my one col- ony of Italian drones, the chances are small for the queen finding a drone among 21 colonies of bees with only one colony of drones flying. And while I am keeping drones up in 21 colonies, there may be some queens in the same colonies wanting to fly out to mate. What per cent, of drones could be trapped and killed without damage to the apiary? By trapping all the drones from the new colony, the queen could be allowed to fly and mate with Italian drones. Russellville, Mo. L. G. C. Answer.—Yes, get one good queen, then rear queens for the rest. Of course it will take a longer time than to buy queens for each one, but it will cost less. There is no trouble about drones enough. One colony can rear drones enough for a large apiary. But it will be better to have two Italian queens, rearing young queens from one of them, and letting the other have plenty of drone-comb, so as to rear a good lot of drones. Not that such a large lot of drones is neces- sary, but the more Italian drones you have, the better your chance of pure f ecundatio«, with black bees around you. There is nothing to hinder your trap- ping all the drones in all the hives ex-
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