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as another batch of virgin queens is ready, these little boxes, when 

 emptied of bees, are ready to be re-filled and used as before. 



Another advsintage of this method is the ease with which queens 

 may be mated to select drones. It is the transportability of the 

 nuclei that allows this. A man can carry from 15 to 25 on his arm, 

 like a load of stove wood; or hundreds of them may be piled into a 

 spring wagon, together with a colony of choice drones, and carried 





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used by W. H. Pridgen, of Creek, N 'C/ 



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 out three or four miles from any other bees. Possibly the next day 

 every queen will mate, and that to the very drones of our choice, 

 when all may be brought in, and, if so desired, queens and drones of 

 another race may then be mated upon the same ground. Another 

 thing, when the baby nuclei are carried away from all other bees, to 



