406 A Modern Bee-Farm 
honey in hot climates that is not so frequently met with 
in temperate zones. Queens bred from strains of bees 
acclimatized in temperate localities, producing workers in 
every way desirable for honey-production, may be compara- 
tive failures when transplanted to places near the Equator. 
Ordinary Italians, Carniolans, or Black bees will be of 
little use ; but better results will be secured by using 
Cyprians or Holy Lands; or the first crosses from these 
with Italian or Carniolan drones, where the situation is 
very carefully studied. 
Crowding the Stock Combs. 
Near the tropics bees may crowd the stock combs with 
stores to such an extent that the population is never 
sufficient to ensure the production of large yields, while 
all the time honey is wasting everywhere by the ton.* 
Then it is often said the bees are lazy ; but how about the 
owner ? 
But there are practical bee-keepers who are certainly not 
lazy, and who know that their bees are not lazy; but they 
nevertheless have great difficulty in maintaining a brood 
nest, and without a succession of young bees no profitable 
result is to be gained. 
In some instances the great difficulty is that the heaviest 
flow may occur just in the cooler season, when the bees 
naturally require a rest from brood rearing—and they take 
it. This does not prevent them gathering some of the 
honey that is everywhere available, until they have crowded 
the broodless combs. 
No Brood—No Surplus Comb-Building. 
If bees have no brood in the combs already covered they 
* The very same thing happens occasionally through inattention 
in Great Britain, the United States, and elsewhere; but not as a 
general climatic condition. 
