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after the usual three days period. There they remain just as 

 deposited by the queen, and as soon as favorable weather 

 appears the food is supplied and they are allowed to hatch. 



Eggs that should produce workers are sometimes held over 

 in this way in early spring ; but more frequently it happens 

 with these in late autumn. 



Swarming v. Honey. — The apiarist who is presumably 

 working simply for honey must not only rigidly repress all 

 natural swarming but will be compelled to double up, or unite 

 at least two colonies into one, at the commencement of the 

 season if he has the least hope of securing a heavy paying 

 crop. 



It is useless to attempt to rely upon any one apjjarently 

 strong colony. The certainty must be attained at one stroke, 

 ■and the act of doubling at the right time will enable him to 

 secure enormous crops. 



The individual stock is too frequently relied upon, only for 

 the bee-keeper to find that the season is too far gone before 

 earnest work is really commenced. 



Pure v. Cross-breeds. — One of the greatest mistakes 

 "the honey-producer can make is to attempt to secure the 

 highest profitable results from any known pure race of bees. 



The foreign varieties are of value almost solely as a means 

 •of improving our stock by maintaining that high state of 

 vigour and excellence which always follows judicious crossing. 



