CHAPTEE XII. 

 QUEEN BAISING AND INTBODUCING. 



The heading of colonies with young, and consequently 

 vigorous laying queens, is of great importance, hence 

 the necessity for rules to guide in the rearing and 

 introducing of queens to stocks that have lost their 

 queens, or have queens of inferior quality. It does 

 not follow that, though queens are of little use to an 

 advanced bee-keeper after their second season, they 

 must be removed from every stock which has not sent 

 out a swarm for two successive seasons, because bees 

 undoubtedly raise queens to supersede those faiUng 

 in their power of egg-laying. 



A few years ago a bee-keeper, owning a large apiary, 

 noticed during the manipulations of a particular colony 

 that there were newly-formed queen cells in the hive, 

 though at the same time the queen was laying. This 

 circumstance would have received little notice, but for 

 the fact that it was not near swarming time, and the 

 colony was evidently not preparing for swarming. 

 The progress of events was carefully watched, and 

 during a subsequent examination a young queen was 

 found on the combs, whilst the old queen was also 



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