condition is found in the hive at the time the loss of 
the queen occurs, some stocks will raise a black queen, 
do avoid this as much as possible, some prefer to raise 
a queen in a nucleus and introdece her after she has be- 
come fertile. To do this, form a nucleus as in the first 
method ; ten days later, form other nuclte and trans- 
fer a perfect queen-cell to each ; as soon as hatched 
and fertilized, introduce them to colonies of black bees 
and rear others for forming mu lens ; warms Get one 
Italian queen for each hive the first year, even if a 
number of them are fertilized by black drones al- 
though their worker progeny will be hybrids, the drones 
produced by them will be pure, and if no black queens 
are in your apiary, none but pure Italian drones will be 
hatched. If any queens are found to produce workers 
showing less than three yellow bands, the young bees 
and those just hatching, should be examined, and if all 
do not show three bands, the queen is not purely fertil- 
ized ; and to furnish the stocks with pure queens, an- 
other set should be reared from the original pure queen; 
she being now, almost sure to meet pure drones. This 
replacing should be done before they swarm, or before 
they rear queens from the hybridized eggs of the 
original queen, as such queens although fertilized by 
pure drones would produce impure drones, 
