DADANT SYSTEM OP BEEKEEPING 33 



Other beekeepers make it a practice to behead the drones 

 when in the cells, before they are emerged. The sealed drone- 

 cells have the peculiar rounded appearance of a revolver bullet 

 in the shell, so they are easily seen. But when we cut off the 

 heads of this brood, we give the bees the unpleasant task of 

 throwing out of the hive all this dead brood, which they pull 

 out of the cells with a great deal of labor. Then, as soon as those 

 cells have been emptied and burnished, there is good chance 

 for the queen to refill them, with the same number of drones, 

 at additional cost to the bees, doubling the work and the expense. 



It is therefore very important, and we urge it upon the 

 beekeeper who wishes to succeed, to remove all drone-comb 

 from every colony except those selected by him as breeders, re- 

 placing all this drone-comb at once with worker-combs. 



