ITALIANIZING. 6$ 



of drone brood which I had taken from the Italians 

 and given to the hive of blacks. But I feared these 

 drones were too few. Hence my first thought was 

 to secure more pure drones from the eggs of the 

 royal lady from Italy. To this end I opened the 

 hive of Italians just before sunset on the day of its 

 arrival, and inserted in the very midst of the frames 

 containing brood one of the frames of drone comb 

 prepared when 1 was transferring. The next even- 

 ing I examined this frame and finding it had eggs 

 in a large number of cells, I gave it to a good colony 

 of blacks, and inserted in its place another frame of 

 drone comb. This I did for three days in succession, 

 getting as many frames, each supplied with about 

 two thousand drone eggs, which frames were given 

 to as many black stocks. In addition to laying the 

 drone eggs in these frames the Italian queen had de- 

 posited not a few eggs in the outer margins of the 

 four frames containing brood, mentioned above as 

 having been found when the combs were transferred. 

 And she had laid a number of eggs also in two 

 other frames, so that on the evening of April 27th 

 there were six frames containing eggs and larvae. 

 The queen would not have laid so many eggs if I 

 had not stimulated her by feeding the hive every 

 night with about a pound of pure sugar syrup. The 

 bees gathered some honey and plenty of pollen 

 from the willows and maples during the day, and 



