The bee-keeper's text-book by N. H. King

Author:N. H. King
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: H.A. King

Another method preferred by some, is to Italianize all your own and your neighbors' stocks as far as practicable the first year. To do this, secure the construction ol as many queencells as possible from the brood in the Italian stock, and insert one in each nucleus. Let the queens hatch and become fertile, paying no attention to what kind of drones they meet. "When fertile introduce them to the parent stocks, and rear others the same way before swaxming. These queens, having been fertilized by black drones, their worker progeny will be hybrids, but their drones will be pure. The next season, all the drones in the apiary being pure Italians, the work is half accomplished. Then rear another set of queens, one for each hive, from the original pure one, and there being none other but pure drones in the neighborhood, the young queens will seldom find black ones, especially if the apiary be large.

ITALIAN QUEEN REARING.

The superiority of Italian bees is becoming so generally known that there is a great and constantly increasing demand for queens; hence the necessity for plain practical directions that shall insure success in rearing them even by the inexperienced bee-keeper. "We are aware that general rules have been given, and many nice things written, yet the practical part, upon which success depends, is understood by but few. "We have already given directions for rearing queens to Italianize -an apiary, but when desirous of engaging in their extensive propagation, the following course should be pursued. Having Italianized your own apiary, and all your neighbors' stocks within about three miles, you are fully prepared to commence the business of queen rearing.

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