184 THE BEE-KEEPERo REVIEW 



In selecting my drones I put more stress on the way they leave 

 the hive. It is just a streak is all that you can see; you could not 

 set any color or hardly know it was a drone. This shows you per- 

 fect wings and vigor as you can tell in no other way. Note the 

 difference in the flight of your drones, and see how lazy some leave 

 the hive. Now, don't jump to conclusions. A drone has to be at 

 least ten days old or more before he will pay any attention to 

 queens. So be sure you know that they are mature drones before 

 you judge too hastily. 



ru&insHZNa sbone comb to conttroii tbe sbone fbodttction. 



After you select your drone mothers give them a plenty of drone 

 comb near the center of the brood nest, and be sure to feed these 

 colonies so there will be no let up on drone rearing. Bees will 

 raise drones so keep a comb in every hive with 3x4 inches of drone 

 comb. This satisfies them. You can keep it at one side of the hive 

 and every twenty days pull out that comb and with an uncapping 

 knife shave their heads oft". This is a short job and surely gets 

 rid of all undesirable drones or the most of them. ,. 



Now these very best queens for honey, as I said before, are 

 often poor queen mothers. Some of them are the very best drone 

 mothers that you can get, so keep them as long as you can for 

 that purpose. 



QUJSEN BEABING OB BAISHTG TaE VEBT BEST QTTBBN. 



In the first place the most of the literature on queen rearing 

 says that a larvae two days old is just as good for a queen as the 

 tgg. or even older than that some claim would do no liann. The 

 late Henrv Alley always claimed that the best way was to cut the 

 comb in strips and kill every other egg and we would get nice 

 large queens every tinie, other things being equal. Had Air. Alley 

 explained why, it would have saved me several years' testing out 

 different methods to kiwzv zvhy. Dr. Phillips told me that a queen 

 transferred when a larvae was just as good, if done properly. 



I would like to ask any one did you ever know a colony in a 

 normal condition to use anything to rear a queen from but an eggt 

 Not taking a larvae two or three days old, as they nnll do, if we 

 take the queen azvay. 



After testing queens reared from larvre two days old, I found 

 that she was good for one year, but not as good the second season 

 and would be superseded sure the third season and some times the 

 fall of the second season. The queens from larvae three days old 

 were short-lived; would be superseded the second and sometimes 

 the first season. 



{Coniiniud in June Xnnibcr) 



