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aperations with tlicso at Parrainatta, in Jaunary, 1882. An importation of 

 prize queens from America was made, and the operation of queen rearing 



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was entered on. In the meantime a number of colonies of the com- 

 mon black or English bee had been secured and transferred to frame 

 hives, and as Italian queens were reared, the black queens were removed 

 and replaced by Italians, the progeny of which replaced the black bees, aa 

 the latter died out. Not much attention was paid to prodnclng honey nntil 

 the race of ItaUan bees could be firmly established, and the result was that 

 in the spring of last year there were aboat eighty colonies of gold-banded 

 Italians actively at work. 



The bee master is an adept at his profession. Wifli a pipe in his month. 



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