98 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Well, one of these from each of the strongest colonies for each 

 of the weaker ones is just what they need, and we will put in the 

 place of these an empty comb from the weaker ones. The queens in 

 the stronger colonies need more room anywa}' and they will occupy 

 the empty combs in two or three days, and they will be fine combs 

 on our next round. 



During the time the bees Avill emerge from the combs, we gave 

 the weak colonies and will greatly strengthen them, and their queen 

 will have another ideal frame in her nest (for it must be inserted 

 there or the brood may become chilled and part of it die). But some 

 bee-keepers will say the honey flow is on Avith us now, or will be 

 before 30 days, for ni}- first great honey plants are beginning to 

 bloom or will be soon, ^^'ell you had better give one super to each 

 of the strongest colonies or do so as soon as the honey plants bloom 

 out some. 



If you do not know the honey plants in your section, you do 

 know al)Out what time bees usually swarm in A^our section, and set 

 the supers on al^out two weeks before that time. 



Have We Not Been Breeding Too Much for Color 

 and Too Little for Honey? 



(Co7i tin lied f}o»i page 9?) 



and got fourteen as good queens as I wanted to see, only they were 

 quite dark colored. I raised queens from this queen twice, and they 

 were good mahogany color with black tip. There were no drones 

 that I knew of for miles around, so they mated pure and wintered 

 all right. 



The next spring I had a large crop of drones and plenty of work- 

 ers in the hives of these young queens, with a few very late orders 

 left from the fall before, I started in queen raising early, with cells 

 from the brood of that old queen. These young queens had to mate 

 with the drones from their sisters (in-breeding, that awful wicked 

 thing to do) and these young queens were sent ofif. I kept raising 

 from the old queen and had thousands of drones from these late fall 

 queens ; towards the last of ]\Iay I succeeded in having enough cells 

 so I saved a few for myself, and I noticed the}^ Avere filling up their 

 hiA^es better than the other bees any Avhere else had done. I also 

 had a call for queens the last of the season by a person that "did 

 not Avant any young half groAvn things that were not old enough to 

 wean." To this customer I sent part of those year-old queens. 

 (There Avere persons in those days Avith peculiar notions about bees). 



(Concluded in April number) 



