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hive. This plan is carried out throughout the entire apiary. This 

 past season throughout the three extractings (with the exception of 

 one colony that became queenless) every colony that made a good 

 footing the first extracting did the second, and also the third. Some 

 of those that made a poor footing the first came out as A No. ] in the 

 second and third. 



Why? Because they w^ere weak in the spring, and had to have 

 time to build up. 



The greater number of these colonies that made a partial failure, 

 so far as appearances went, were as populous and seemed as good 

 rustlers as those that gave good yields. But they did not get the 

 hone}''! And it cost just as much to care for them as for the best. 



I went up into the mountain a reasonable distance from my 

 apiary, cleaned away the brush, graded the plat down, and estab- 

 lished a queen-nursery of forty colonies, ten framed size. I soon had 

 forty beautiful laying queens, all from well selected brood from the 

 A No. 1 colonies. I began removing objectionable queens and re- 

 placing them with these new ones. The colonies deprived of their 

 queens in the nursery would proceed at once to rear another. As 

 soon as six days expire I go to one of the A No. I's in the main apiary 

 and draw a frame of brood, and after removing all queen cells from 

 the combs in the colony so deprived of their queen in the nursery, I 

 give them the new brood and leave them to rear a better queen. I 

 see the newly introduced queen is accepted and well on the road to 

 business. One of the important steps is to register on the front of 

 the hive on a metal plate, also on the corresponding card in the cab- 

 inet, as nearly as possible the date of the queen's hatching. This en- 

 ables me to know when to supersede the old queen with a young one. 



Mendelism and the Breeding of Bees 



By G. W. BULLAMORE, F. R. M. S. 



Alhnry, Much Hcnlhani, Herts. 

 '^i\ Ix\GRAMS are occasionally given which show that, accord- 

 ^Jl/ ing to Mendelian laws of inheritance, crosses between the 

 black and the Italian race of bees will eventually revert to 

 one or other of the original parent races. These diagrams may be 

 correctlv drawn, yet when we go more deeply into the views of 

 Mendel we find that a diagram may mislead us as to wluit actually 

 happens. 



When we deal with a single pair of characters it is quite true 

 that the descendants revert to one or the other original parental 

 types, but it by no means follows that the possession of this parental 

 character ensures the possession of all the other characteristics of 

 the original stock. Mendel sets this forth very fully when discussing 



