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DR. DULLER S 



Q. I am working my bees for extracted honey exclusively, 

 and use a three-story hive. Can I requeen my apiary by rearmg 

 young queens in the upper story by employing two queen-exclud- 

 ing honey-boards, one over the brood-nest, and one under the 

 top story in which the new queen stays? Of course, I must bore 

 a hole in the back of the super from which the young queen can 

 fly. Will I get rid of the nuisance of finding my young queen 

 killed, or at least gone, when I take a notion to hunt out the old 

 queen and decapitate her? 



A. Years ago I was delighted to succeed in the way you out- 

 line, but of late years failures have been the rule, so I have given 





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Fig. 24 — OticL-n-cells built on a comb specially prepared. 



it up. I don't know what makes the difference, unless it be that 

 originally the upper story with the young queen was more 

 isolated. The farther up the top story, the better. Indeed, the 

 first time I had a queen reared and laying in an upper story was 

 an accident, and there was not even an excluder in the case. I 

 put three or four stories of empty combs over a colony to have 

 the bees take care of the combs, and in order to make the bees 

 traverse the ^\hole, I put some brood in the upper story — no ex- 

 cluder anywhere. After some time I was surprised to find a young 

 queen laying in the upper story. The bees had reared her from 

 the brood, and it happened that there was a leak under the cover 

 which she could fly through. In my later attempts there has not 

 been so great isolation, and it might be worth while for me to 



