THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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Forty Colonies in Emonds Yard Working for Howe. 



I have found that there is quite a variation in size, color, and 

 their wings are often imperfect. Look well to their wings, and 

 never use a queen that throws small workers or small drones. The 

 cell has no influence with these queens, they are simply runt bees 

 and will give you the same variation with perfect worker and drone 

 cells. Do not use such a quee}i as a breeder. It is in the queen. 



INFIiUENCZ: THE SIZE OF CEI.!. HAS OIT BEES. 



Speaking" of the size of cell, I mean that certain queens produce 

 large bees, drones and workers. Other queens produce small bees, 

 a noticeable difference in size. Some claim that by using larger 

 cells we would get larger bees. Xow take the colony that produces 

 the largest bees, shake all the bees olt the combs and give or ex- 

 change them with the colony that has the smallest bees. If you 

 have some of those little black bees all the better. Shake all the 

 bees off and exchange their combs. Now in six wrecks see the re- 

 sults. You have the large bees where the combs of the small bees 

 were, and the small bees hatched out of the same combs where the 

 large bees were. It is in the race or strain and not in the combs. 



We all know that drones that hatch out of w^orker cells are 

 runts or very inferior drones. So to get good drones we must let 

 the bees build perfect drone combs, not use sagged or stretched 

 foundation combs, for you would not get perfect males, from such 

 cells. 



