Excerpt from The Handy Book of Bees: Being a Practical Treatise on Their Profitable Management This is a very important affair - so important that a bee keeper should know all he can about it when and where it takes place, and what happens when it never takes place at all. Very well. Queens are mated or take the drone when they are very young - via, from two to ten or twelve days old. If they are not mated before they are ten or twelve days old, they are worthless for breeding pur poses, worthless for every purpose save that of keeping the bees together till they are worn out by labour or old age. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
