HOW TO KEEP BEES FOR PROFIT 



away with the old method of having to use a 

 full colony for each queen mated. Virgins 

 may be given to a queenless colony and 

 allowed to mate from them, but great care 

 will have to be exercised in introducing them, 

 as a colony will not accept them as readily as a 

 queen that has mated and begun to lay. 

 Then again if the beekeeper is rearing queens 

 with which to supply the trade, the demand 

 is for mated and laying queens, and it becomes 

 a necessity to have them mated before being 

 sold. 



The best mating-box is the Root twin 

 mating-box, which is so divided in the centre 

 that each compartment contains two small 

 combs that have been built in a strong colony; 

 and as there are two small entrances to the 

 box, each little nucleus of bees has the spirit of 

 a colony. 



When the virgins have hatched, take the 

 small mating-boxes to a strong colony, and into 

 each compartment of the mating-box brush 

 about a teacupful of bees, being careful not to 



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