How to get Queens. 



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the same purpose. This will hold several combs. Of course 

 it will not do to leave combs thus exposed, except when the 



Fig. 87. 



Young's Easel. 



bees are busy in the field ; or we will have great trouble with 

 robber bees. 



TO GET OUE ITALIAN QTIEENS. 



,At present the novice, and probably the honey producer 

 who prefers to purchase rather than rear his queens, better 

 send to some reliable, experienced breeder, and procure "dol- 

 lar queens." Unless these are impurely mated, which will 

 rarely happen with first-class breeders, they are just as 

 good as "tested queens." Testing only refers to the matter 

 of pure mating. 



I have felt, and I still feel, that this cheap queen traffic tends 

 to haste, not care, in breeding, and that with "dollar queens" 

 ruling in the market, there is lack of inducement for that 

 careful, painstaking labor that is absolutely requisite to give 

 us the best race of bees. It is justly claimed, however, in 

 favor of the ' ' Dollar Queen " business, that it has hastened the 

 spread of Italian bees, gives those who rather buy than rear 



