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ADVANCED BEE CULTURE. 



use. If the bees of any colony prove vindictive, re-queen it. If the 

 bees of another colony are poor comb builders, or cap their honey 

 poorly, destroy the queen and give them another. Do the same if 

 they build large quantities of "brace-combs," or if they are unduly 

 given to swarming, or if they are poor honey gatherers, or do not 

 winter well. On the other hand, the desirable traits should be 

 watched for and recorded, and queens reared from the queens of 

 such colonies. Care ought also to be taken that no drones are 

 reared, or allowed to fly, from undesirable stock, and pains taken to 

 rear them in goodly numbers from the best stocks in the apiary. 

 By pursuing this course, the bee-keeper will eventually build up a 

 strain of bees that will be peaceable, hardy, good honey gatherers, 

 and good comb builders. Well-directed efforts at improving his 

 stock, carefully watching and recording the traits of each colony, 

 getting rid of poor queens and keeping the best, perhaps buying 

 queens occasionally and compaiing their progeny with the stock 

 already on hand, always breefling from the best, such a course as 

 this will prove the most profitable of any which a bee-keeper can 

 pursue. The wonder is that it is so greatly neglected. 





