322 THE ITAUAN OE LIGUEIAN BEE. 



if one or two native stocks were within the prescribed 

 limits, and it was desired to test her purity before intro- 

 ducing her, it would be necessary to wait tUl some of 

 her workers hatch. If she has demeaned herself by a 

 "mis-alliance" it wiU usually be manifested by some 

 of her workers being black. If she is bright, and it is 

 absolutely certain that she was purely impregnated, the 

 bees left after she is removed, may be allowed to rear an- 

 other queen from her brood ; otherwise, give them brood 

 from a queen that you know to be pui-e. 



METHOD OP ITAIilAKIZING A WHOLE APIARY. 



There is another method of changing an apiary where 

 there is a large number, that may be less trouble than the 

 foregoing. Those who are not fully acquainted with the 

 natural history of bees, will be hardly able to compre- 

 hend it, yet I shall give it, and trust to their becoming 

 familiar with the whole subject. 



Queens enough can be reared in one summer to supply 

 the whole apiary, no matter how many may be required, 

 and if this is decided upon, take no pains to isolate, but 

 rear all the queens at home, and let them meet the native 

 drone. These wUl produce mixed workers, but pure 

 drones. — The impregnation of a queen has no effect on 

 her drone progeny. — ^Introduce a queen into each stock, 

 and the next season, perhaps before, if done early, all the 

 drones will be pure Italians. Now raise another set of 

 queens from the original pure one ; the drones of the 

 yard being aU. pure, they can hardly fail to meet them, 

 and consequently the second generation of workers wUl 

 be pure. Occasionally, a queen will produce hybrid 

 workers ; as soon as discovered, remove her, and substi- 

 tute another. 



