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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Aug. 18, 1904. 



strong colonies certainly till they are sealed, if not until the 

 princesses emerge. 



2. There is too much variation in the matter to name a 

 definite day on which the young queen will be ready to take 

 her nuptial flight. If a prime swarm issues June 1, the 

 young queen may emerge from her cell anywhere from the 

 5th to the 10th, or later, according to peculiar conditions. 

 Then they do not all take the nuptial flight at the same 

 age ; it may be when 5 days old, or it may be when older. 

 It is a rare thing, however, for a young queen to emerge 



sooner than a week after the swarm issues, and if she 

 should take her wedding-flight at S days old, that would be 

 12 days after swarming, so if you should begin the cellaring 

 the night of the 11th, and carry out the hives each after- 

 noon until fertilization took place, you would be pretty safe. 



3. June 11 is as late as it will be safe to leave them with- 

 out fear that some will hatch. 



4. Yes, you may find drones of any colony in any other 

 I colony in the apiary. 





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