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neither very irregular, while those of the third class range from 

 Goldens to Blacks. 



If you have followed me you will see that uniformity of drone 

 offspring indicates pure parentage of the queen, while lack of uni- 

 formity of the drones means impure ancestry. Queens of pure 

 ancestry will breed true to drones of their stock, while those of 

 impure ancestry will rarely do so either to drones of their own 

 stock or to drones of thoroughbred stock. 



And now you can understand why some seasons you have so 

 many of what you call mismatings. Your queen stock is not 

 thoroughbred. 



Providence. R. I. 



Getting the Bees to Clean Up Cappings. 



WM. KERNAN. 



OX page 310, of the 1909 Review, Mr. J. Crane gives a plan for 

 getting the bees to clean up cappings, by putting the cappings 

 in pails or kegs for the bees to work on. As this is apt to 

 cause considerable annoyance in an apiary, the thought occurred to 

 me, why not place the cappings in boxes in the colonies in upper 

 stories? 



Last summer I oot several small drv goods boxes and tried this 

 as an experiment, and it seems to be a good thing, probably better 

 than netting or washing the cappings, and I don't know as it takes 

 any more time or laJDor, and the honey is all saved. 



The boxes should be a little smaller than the inside of a hive 

 body. A few nails may be driven part way in the bottom of the 

 box to keep from killing" bees when lowering the box and also a 

 cleat should be nailed across the top of the box, to carry it by. The 

 boxes can be placed on colonies storing honey during the summer, 

 but late in the fall it is probably not a good thing to disturb the 

 colonies by slow feeding, as they are not apt to form m a cluster 

 for wintering. 



FEEDERS AGAIN. 



Last spring I wanted to do a little stimulative feeding, and I 

 was not quite satisfied with any of the feeders. I got a few cans 

 and was making pepper-box breeders of them. Right beside me in 

 a box was a lot of new SV^-lb. friction top honey cans. I tried a 

 few of them and I found they w^ere fine. The way I used them was, 

 1 took a piece of building paper the size of a hive and cut a small 

 hole in the center and placed the inverted can over the small hole 

 and the bees came up in the hollow in the can top. I found that 



