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warm the hive must be set in a warm room. Tjie entrance 

 should be closed, in any case. This keeps the queen from 

 leaving, and robber-bees from doing' harm. As the number of 

 bees warrant it, more brood may be added, and by adding 

 capped brood alone we may very soon have a full-sized colony. 

 By having a colony thus Italianized in the fall, we may 

 commence the next spring, and, as described in the section 

 explaining the rearing of queens, we may control our rearing 

 of drones, queens, and all, and ere another autumn have only 



Fig. 143. 



Valentine^ 



I Comb-Stand. 



— From A. I. Boot Co. 



Young^s Easel. 



the beautiful, pure, amiable, and active Italians. I have done 

 this several times, and with the most perfect satisfaction. I 

 think by making this change in blood, we add certainly two 

 dollars to the value of each colony, and I know of no other 

 way to make money so easily and pleasantly. Newly intro- 

 duced queens will often commence laying at once ; almost 

 always within two or three days ; although if introduced in 



