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beekeeper who wishes to improve his stock in the 

 quickest time and with least expense. By buy- 

 ing a purely mated queen and breeding from 

 her he can soon change the conditions in his 

 apiary even though his young queens meet im- 

 pure drones. If he has, say, one hundred 

 colonies of bees and will rear one hundred 

 queens from the purely mated mother and re- 

 queen all his colonies his yard will soon be 

 full of pure drones. At the same time the 

 workers will all be crosses since the young 

 queens have had no opportunity to meet pure 

 drones on their mating flights. If the yard is 

 requeened early in spring a second lot of queens 

 can be reared in late summer from the same 

 purely mated mother. By this time most of 

 the original drones will have disappeared and 

 the apiary w^ill be abundantly supplied with 

 pure males. The second lot of queens will meet 

 pure drones and they can be used to replace the 

 mismated stock already present. In this simple 



