Excerpt from The Bee-Keepers' Review, Vol. 10: January 10, 1897
It should be understood that success attendant upon clipping is contingent upon having none but pure drones in the apiary containing the young queens, also that the amount clipped from each wing be uniform, otherwise with a lack of balancing power the queens are sure to be lost.
I am so well satisfied with past results that I expect to clip all my young queens the coming season.
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