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CHAPTER XXV, 



WORKING TWO QUEENS IN ONE 

 HIVE. 



THE WELLS' SYSTEM. 



A FEW years back Dr. Stroud, of South Africa, mentioned 

 in the British Bee Journal that he had a system of 

 . working any number of queens in one hive or colony, and that 

 he had long piractised, that method. . No details, however, were 

 given by him, and if there were any rnerits in his process he 

 appears to have been careful to keep the supposed secret to 

 hitnself. 



A more recent correspondent makes in the same journal 

 a statement to the effect that he had saved five queens over 

 winter in one colony of bees, all having free access to the 

 respective queens. This is no more than has been known to» 

 and carried out by many other bee-keepers, especially in the 

 process of modern queen-rearing. Mr. Heddon, of Dowagiac, 

 Michigan, -laid claim to being first to point out the possibility 

 of working more than one queen in a hive : Doolittle and 

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