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iiiu Just about to i)inch the life out 

 (iT I'.rr. when the tliouylit arrested uie, 

 tliat !-r. Ilaiiiliu woukl not solid iiic a 

 \\(ir;liU'ss (lUiH'U as a pri'iniuni, and 

 I hat 1 wouUl roar a lew (luoeiis rnuii 

 ht-r, whifh ihiiij;- 1 did, she dying soon 

 atU'rward, of apparent okl age. All 

 of those young (luooiis proved to ho 

 extra good oiu's. and one ot them was 

 the mother of the eolony whieh gave 

 me ."idli pounds of houoy in 1877, and 

 was used in laying the foundation of 

 my prestMit apiary. 4()(i p(;unds of this 

 honey soUl at 21) cents per pound, and 

 1(1(1 at I.") eents. the total cash result- 

 ing from that eolony that year being 

 .i:iOS.2(). Was her nioth(>r worthless? 

 (iuite a iiouso-tly." wasn't sheV Stood 

 way up by the side of the best of 

 eows as to value! The honey sold 

 from this colony during that year 

 amounted to .$8.20 more than Mr. Al- 

 ley prized his $100 queen at, and lack- 

 ed only .$01.80 of giving as much cash 

 in :i single year as the celebrated Root 

 long-tongued qiieen was ever valued 

 at. And yet. if I do not misinterpret 

 I>r. Gallup, he would no more have 

 bred from that Hamlin qiieen than he 

 would from those two imported worth- 

 less (V). degenerate (?), housefly (V) 

 queens he got of A. I. Root, which he 

 tells us about on page -123 of the 

 American Bee Journal for 1902. 



Right here is where many purchas- 

 ing (lueens make a great mistake: If 

 the purchased queen does not almost 

 immediately outstrip anything they 

 have in their apiary, she is condemned 

 at once as a breeder, if her head is 

 not pinched. I have had scores of let- 

 ters telling of queens purchased from 

 different queen-breeders which did not 

 do well in the purchasers' hand, they 

 condemning the breeders for sending 

 out poor, worthless queens. I gener- 

 ally write asking if they have reared 

 any young queens from them, and the 

 rei)ly generally is. 'No, I killed the 



queen,' or, 'She is not worth breeding 

 from.' A few have been persuaded to 

 breed from these seemingly worthlesr. 

 purchased (luoens, and I have several 

 letiers ia my possession thanking me 

 for insisting on their breeding from 

 these apparently poor (lueens, for 

 thereby -they have some of the linest 

 (lueens they ever possessed. 



Too much emph.asis cannot be laid 

 on the fact that it is the daughters of 

 the purchased (lueen which tell of the 

 value of the mother. And this is a 

 subject which is also treated on in 

 •t-'cientilic Queen-Rearing.' Had those 

 those parties Who reported to 1 »r. 

 Gallup that 'Doolittle's (pieens did not 

 turn out right,' bred from them, it is 

 barely possilile that they might have 

 found out that they had something 

 similar to what I had in that Hamlin 

 queen. My advice to all is not to con- 

 demn a purchased queen till you see 

 what her daughters will do. If such 

 daughters all appear to be i)oor, then 

 it would be quite reasonalde to decide 

 that tluMr mother was truely worth 

 less." 



BEES IN CITIES 



They Must be Managed with Great Care to 

 Prevent Their Annoying Neighbors. 



Some bee-keepers imagine that be- 

 cause the National Association has al- 

 ways been triumphant when there has 

 been an attempt to drive some meni- 

 lior, or his liees, outside the corporation 

 that they can keep bees in almost any 

 way, in almost any situation. 1 am 

 glad to see that ^lanager Fi-ance does 

 not propose to defend every member 

 whose bees are declared a nuisance, 

 regardless of whether they are a 

 nuisance oi' not. All beo-keepei-s well- 

 know that a large apiary might be so 

 managed as to Ix'coine a terrilde 

 nuisance to near neighbors in a city 



