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The Color of Combs 
adjoining newly capped honey is known to determine to 
some degree the shade of the cappings then used, but it is 
a fact not generally realized that if dark combs are used 
for the rearing of queens, those of a yellow’strain will to a 
large extent have their color impaired by the contact ; 
while very new and thin combs will have exactly the 
opposite effect, ensuring bright yellow queens. 
One may lubricate or wipe out his cell-cups with honey, 
only to find that the queens therein produced are much 
darker than others from a yellow queen, whose cells may 
have been cleaned with warm water or-not at all, if new. 
Dark queens may also result from a lowered temperature, 
and more particularly if stinted in food, when reared at an 
unsuitable season, or started from larve already well 
advanced with the food designed for producing a worker. 
Stock Frames versus Twin Frames. 
The late Mr. F. Cheshire illustrated in his early work, 
Practical Beekeeping, a set of twin-frames that could be 
used in the full stock chamber or a smaller nucleus hive 
when folded; and others have advocated similar frames ; 
but the Author has: found no economy in using anything 
smaller than the British standard size; as with the 
larger frame stocks may be readily built up from nuclei, 
or nuclei replenished as desired from stocks without waste 
of material and bees. 
