rey) BEE CULTURE. 
the season, from March to October, this is a sure sign. Colo- 
uies that lose their queens during the winter have a forlorn 
appearance. The bees walk around the entrance listlessly 
and without eagerness ; but few of them go in search of either 
honey or pollen. 
No time should be lost in giving a queenless colony a comb 
of eggs or young larve, or both, from which to raise a queen. 
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Fic. 43.—Legs of an Italian Worker Bee. 
Sometimes such a colony will refuse to raise queen cells: it 
may be too weak ; its queen may be too old to lay, or they 
may have a fertile worker. If it be too weak, it should be 
united with another colony. If its queen be old, she should 
Le removed and the bees given a frame of brood from a pros- 
perous colony. If it has a fertile worker the most effective 
way to get rid of it is to break up the colony, dividing it 
among strong colonies having fertile queens. 
