THE BEB-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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strain 



"'Italians. 



Ifyouwiiit to secure a large crop of honey, 

 if yi>n xvM'.it snowy wrjile comb honey that will 

 bring the liigliest ni ukei jirice. if you' want bses 

 that are excellent re i-cl)ver workers, bees that 

 are gentle to handle and hardy, in sliort, if you 

 wint bees for business. sto:k your api iry with 

 MDre's strain of Italians Tltey are the result 

 of 21 years of careful breeding, liy selecting the 

 best h >ney-g ithering stock each season from 

 which to rear riueens, and crossing them, as far 

 as p jss'ble, with drones not akin. 



If you could step into my office, and read the 

 stacks of letters from pleised cusiomers, \vho 

 count their colonies by the hundred, and pro- 

 d'lce honev by the carload. I think that you, 

 too. would soon be numbered as one of my 

 customers. 



Prof. T. M.Barton, of Butler, Ky., one of our 

 most popular citizens, visited me last Feb'y. and 

 perused many letters from my customers. The 

 following is what he had to say in The Pbndlk- 

 TONi.XN, of M'ch 8. 1950. our county paper pub- 

 lished at Falmouth. Ky • — 



•'It was my good fortune on Sunday to dine 

 with my friend. J. P. Moore, of Mor.gan, Ky. 

 Few of our people .seem to know that this quiet, 

 unassuming gentleman, of Southern Pendleton, 

 is known all over Xorth .\nierica as one of the 

 m 1-it skillful and successful queen-rearers to be 

 fo md anywhere Mr. M lore has patiently and 

 skillfully libjred for 20 y^ars to improve his 

 •< -es, and the results are m irvelous. The in- 

 di-i'.ry. the prolifi;ness. and the gentleness, of 

 his b:res are the admiration of all who have tried 

 i.i:;m. Mr M >ore's testimonials come from all 

 pDinls of the compass, and from men who sell 

 h >iiev bv the car-loid. Fellow bee-keepers, 

 g;t a few qu=ens fro n Mr. Moore, and put new 

 life into vour apiaries, and yon will thank the 

 editor and me for this notice. I am glad to say 

 thit Mr. Moore is also a good Christian gentle- 

 tmn. and will pit cons-ienceand good will into 

 all h's buiiness transactions." 



F. ank Benton, of W'ashiug'on, D. C, whose 

 na'Ue is familiar to all progressive apiarists, 

 writes me, Feh'y. 20. igoo. as follows: — 



"I have several tim:?s. in the course of corres- 

 pondence, and in conversing with bee-keepers, 

 hid ocrasio'i to answer the question: 'Wliere can 

 the best Italians be g>t'' It is perhaps not an 

 easy thing to siy. with certainty, but. at least, I 

 have felt I might be able to tell where c; lODones 

 could be obtained. A number have been refer- 

 re 1 to you, for. althong'.i I have not tested your 

 stork personally, I thought I knew pretty well, 

 from general reputation, its ch.iracter. A bee- 

 keeper near here— Mr. (ieo. A. I.anphear, of 

 Vienna, Va. — who got some queens of you on 

 my recommendition. is so well pleased with 

 them -in fact, gives vmir beessnch a good recom- 

 mendation to me for gentleness and working 

 qualities, particularly their working on red- 

 clover, that I thought' I would like to try some 

 myself." 



i.,ast fall, I received a letter from J. K. Crane, 

 of Middleburj'. Vt.. stating that some of his 

 friends, who hid tried my stock, recommended 

 it very highly. I wrote Mr. Crane retpiesting 

 him to give iiie the names of his fri nds who had 

 so kindly recommended my stock, and, in reply, 

 he said: — 



•Mr. I, O Thompson, of Weybridge, Vt. has 

 received queens of you that he prizes very high- 

 ly. Indeed, I believe he considers them the best 



he has received, from any breeder, for the pro- 

 duction of honey. •' 



I was not aw.ire that Mr. Thompson was so 

 well pleased, until I received the above letter; so 

 I wrote him, at once, thanking him for his kind- 

 ness in recommending my stock; and here is 

 wlnt Hv: says: — 



"Tliey are excellent honej'-gatherers, nice to 

 handle, sticking to their combs when handling 

 them, not given to tjunching up and roaming. 

 This has been the worst season ever known in 

 Vermont, and when I looked the bees over for 

 winter, your bees had three times as much 

 honey as the blacks, and other strains. Your 

 bees are not given to swarming; and that is one 

 reason why I like them. I think they are as 

 hardy as any bees I ever had. They .seem to 

 stand our severe winters splendidly. We went 

 into winter quarters with s5o colonies." 



Chas. Cx. Kinzel. Caswells Sta., Tenn., on Dec. 

 29. iSgg writes thus: — 



•'I have just been looking over sevei'al copies 

 of (Meanings. Among them, I recall an article 

 from D. B. Lynch, Watertown, .S. Dak., ( .See 

 page 888, Gleanings. 1S99) who speaks in very 

 High terms of a queen purchased from you: I 

 cati testify to the truthfulness of that article. 

 You will remember the nucleus I took from your 

 house. Aug. 25,, which contained a .select, tested 

 queen. Arriving at home, I transferred them to 

 an 8-frame, Dovetailed hive-body, adding another 

 frame of comb containing about 2 lbs. of honey. 

 Tlie next day I added to them a small colony of 

 black bees— less than a quart. I then gave them 

 4 more frames about half filled out with comb, 

 but no honey. They began to get a hustle on 

 themselves, although there wasn't much for them 

 to work on until the aster should bloom a few 

 weeks later. When that did commence to bloom, 

 the hive was chock full of bees; and you ought to 

 have seen them work. They soon completed 

 those 4 unfinished combs. In fact, the hive was 

 overfl jwing with bees and lull of honey; so I 

 placed another story on top containing four em- 

 pty combs. When I went to pack them for win- 

 ter, these 4 combs were also full of honey. So I 

 received from that nucleus, this fall, 22 lbs. of 

 surplus honey, besides leaving fully 40 or .so lbs. 

 forthem to vvint ron." 



Everybody knows the .\. I. Root Co., of Medina, 

 O. On Dec. 8. 1899. I wrote them thanking them 

 for their kindness in publishing the article by 

 Mr. l,ynch, referred to above, and here is their 

 reply: — 



"Your kind letter of Dec. 8 is at hand. Accept 

 thanks for your kindly appreciation of our hum- 

 ble efforts in your behalf. It is not always that 

 our endeavors to plea.se are appreciated in this 

 way. It IS true that I have referred often to the 

 high quality of your queens, particularly, as you 

 have been carrying out my idea of breeeding for 

 honey as well as for some other good qualities," 

 Yours very truly, The A. I. Root Co., 



Per E. R. Root. 

 Prices for igoo. 

 Warranted queens, in June, Ji.oo each; 6 for 

 JS od; 12 for <9 05. Select warranted ?i.25 each; 

 6 for j6.oo; 12 for >i 1.00. All reared by Doolittle's 

 method. Safe arrival and .satisfaction guaran- 

 teed. 



Circular de.scribing each grade of queens sent 

 free to all applicants. 



/. P. MOORED, Morgan, Kentucky. 



