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and helpful experience by rearing your 

 own queens. 



But if you allow drones to fly nearer 

 than two miles, you will be most sure to 

 have part of your queens mate badly. 

 But if you wish to rear your queens and 

 have them all, or nearly all, mate 

 purely, do not allow any drones to fly 

 but the pure ones from your breeders. 

 One good way to do this, with less dan- 

 ger of mismating, is to stimulate by 

 feeding one or two of your breeders, and 

 rear some drones late in the season, 

 when all other drones have been killed 

 off. Then you need not take any pains 

 to keep other drones from flying, as 

 there would be none. In your county 

 (Johnson) you could do this in October 

 and November, and soon Italianize all 

 your bees. You couM take away the 

 queens from four or five of your best 

 colonies, and give brood from the breed- 

 ers, and when you get cells enough for 

 all the colonies, kill the old queens three 

 days before the cells hatch, or three days 

 before you wish to move the cells, then 

 give each colony a queen-cell ; and 

 should any miss queens, the operation 

 can be repeated, or the colony will win- 

 ter all right without a queen. 



Now all this is a good deal of work, 

 but if done as I suggest, and late in the 

 fall, you will not lose any honey crop 

 while you are Italianizing ; and then the 

 next spring all your young queens at 

 swarming time will be apt to mate 

 purely, if you have no other bees near 

 you. I may have failed to tell you the 

 best and cheapest plan, but this is the 

 course I would follow. See Queen-Rear- 

 ing in full, in late issues of the Ameri- 

 can Bee Journal. 



Jennie Atchley. 



P. S. — You had better keep down all 

 the cells the bees start on their own 

 brood, else you may have a worse queen 

 than before. It is a nice job to keep all 

 the cells torn down from a number of 

 colonies. J. A. 



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One-Pouni or Two-Pouufl Sections. 



Query 935.— Which colonj- will store the 

 more surplus honey— the one provided with 

 one-pound sections, or the one having two- 

 pound sections?— Iowa. 



I don't know. I think the two-pound. 

 — E. France. 



I have not found any material differ- 

 ence, in my experience. — J. E. Pond. 



I do not think there would be any ap- 

 preciable difference. — R. L. Taylor. 



If there's any difference it will be in 

 favor of the two-pounds. — C. C. Miller. 



There is very little difference, if any, 

 in favor of the two-pound. — Mrs. L. 

 Harrison. 



Very little difference, the little, if 

 any, being in favor of the two-pound. — 

 G. M. Doolittle. 



Other things being equal, I would ex- 

 pect a little more in the two-pound sec- 

 tions. — M. Mahin. 



I never have used the two-pound sec- 

 tions. My opinion is there would not be 

 much difference. — Eugene Secor. 



It will probably make but little differ- 

 ence, but the advantage would be in 

 favor of the two-pound sections. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



I do not believe there would be any 

 difference. The one-pound sections 

 would sell better in my neighborhood, 

 however. — W. M. Barnum. 



The one with two-pound sections. But 

 you will have more ./l?iishecZ sections with 

 the one-pound style, which are always 

 more salable — Mrs. J. N. Heater. 



I do not think it makes any difference. 

 I have made up my mind that when bees 

 are disposed to store honey, they will 

 put it wherever they can find space. — 

 Jas. a. Stone. 



I have a theory that bees will store 

 more honey in large receptacles than in 

 small ones, but I am not so sure my 

 theory will prove true, if one uses sec- 

 tions with full sheets of foundation, and 



