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four combs well crowded with bees, and protected at. the 
sides with chaff dummies. When a comb of eggs is 
removed, at the same operation insert another, empty, 
or a sheet of foundation if not too late in the season. 
Continue the process every two or three days if many 
queens are being reared, and see that your nuclei are well 
prepared in advance; and where it is likely that too much 
honey will be brought in to hinder the queen by the little 
lot getting strong, then carry the queen and two or three 
of the best combs of brood and accompanying bees to a 
new situation, thus providing her with attendants mostly 
too young to store a surplus. Use the remainder as a 
nucleus, or add to another hive. 
Drones 
are to be produced by stock which has shown good 
qualities and correct colour (if required pure) for several 
generations back. Although the drone progeny is affected 
to some considerable extent by the final mating, the quality 
of drones used must be judged by the sister workers of the 
queen mother. Early drones are best secured by arranging 
drone comb at the centre of a well-provided stock the 
previous autumn. No useless drones should be produced 
as they consume considerable stores. A strong colony 
well provided and made queenless in Autumn before the 
slaughter is likely to commence, will save their drones till 
Winter, but the special breeding of drones for Autumn 
work must be carried on during July. 
Many bee-keepers and some of the various breeders 
endeavour to secure the 
Correct Mating of Italian Queens 
in this country, but the process is such a disappointing 
one to the majority that the attempt is soon given up as 
an impossibility. Ninety-nine queens out of every hundred 
