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whether for the home apiary or an outside apiary. The 

 records are carefully scanned, and that queen chosen 

 which, all things considered, appears to be the best. The 

 first point to be weighed is the amount of honey that has 

 been stored. Other things being equal, the queen whose 

 workers have shown themselves the best storers will have 

 the preference. The matter of wintering will pretty 



Pig- 79- — Supers of Sections Blocked Up. 



much take care of itself, for a colony that has wintered 

 poorly is not likely to do very heavy work in the harvest. 

 The more a colony has done in the way of making prep- 

 arations for swarming, the lower will be its standing. 

 Generally, however, a colony that gives the largest num- 

 ber of sections is one that never dreamed of swarming. 



BREEDIXC, FROM BEST. 



I am well aware that I will be told by some that I am 

 choosing freak queens from which to rear, and that it 

 would be much better to select a queen whose royal 

 daughters showed uniform results only a little above the 



