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Black Rock, N. Y., Sept. 3, 1901. 

 Friend Ernest: — I will try and tell you what you want to know about that 

 queen. I got her of you in 1899 as a premium with Gleanings. I never saw a 

 small colony of bees build up as that one did. In the spring of 1900 they came out 

 in fine shape, wintered perfect. I raised them up in May and gave them 8 frames 

 more so the queen would not want for room. I never saw such a colony of bees as 

 they were in June, and they actually were storing honey wheu other bees in my yard 

 were starving. No! thev were not robbing. I never saw those two best colonies of 

 mine trying to rob. They certainly work on red clover. This is no guesswork, as I 

 have seen them. As you know, the past two seasons have been very poor, and what 

 honey my bees did get in 1900 candied soon after cold weather set in. I packed this 

 colony in a chaff hive and left them out, thinking that such a strong colony would 

 winter perfect. The snow came on the middle of November, and those poor bees 

 never a fly until the la-st of March or the first of April. When warm weather at last 

 came I thought they were dead, as they did not seem to be flying much, so I did not 

 pay any attention to them until in June. I noticed they were working a little, so I 

 opened up the hive aud found them in the upper story. I took- the lower story out 

 and left them in the one body. The queen was laying nicely, and I thought they 

 would make a good colony to winter. Along the last of July I noticed that they 

 needed more room. I gave them a super, 24 boxes, and in a few days they had it 

 full. They have made 72 boxes of as nice honey as you ever saw, and are drawing 

 out some starters now, Sept. 2. 



Very truly yours, 



Geo. B. Howe. 



Prices of Red-Clover Queens. 



Gleanings in Bee Culture i year and Untested Queen, $2.00. 

 " " " Tested Oueen, 4.00. 



" " " Select Tested 6.00. 



If you want something good you can not do better than 

 to order one of these queens. All orders are filled promptly. 

 No extra postage on these to foreign countries. 



THE A. I. ROOT CO., Medina, Ohio, 



