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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



Feb. 26, 1903. 



G. B. LEWIS CO., 



Watertown, Wis., U. S. A. 



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it that you can't rear a queen from an 

 egg taken from a worker cell that will 

 have a colony that large at this time of 

 the year. 



In reply to "The Charge of Dr. Gal- 

 lup," a bit of poetry on page 44 — I wish to 

 say that I do not. condemn queen-saving 

 or queen-selling, but I do say, and say 

 it from experience, that I honestly believe 

 that the only queens that are really of 

 any value are those reared from eggs 

 that the queen deposited in cell-cups, and 

 that any queen reared from worker-eggs 

 is worthless. Furthermore, if any queen- 

 breeder wants to rear good, long-lived 

 queens, just bring about the condition in 

 a hive where the bees will start plenty of 

 cells, and the queen will lay in them and 

 save all the cells, and send out those 

 queens to your customers and let me hear 

 about it and I will probably want some 

 myself, but I won't have them shipped 

 with a few bees by mail, but with at least 

 two Hoffman frames and bees by ex- 

 press. 



In the last verse of said poetry above 

 referred to. "big guns" are mentioned. 

 Don't you know big guns are out of date, 

 especially those black powder, smoky 

 kind? We use only high-pressure smoke- 

 less powder and quick-firing guns on this 

 coast. Geo. B. 'Whitcomb. 



Liim Co., Ore. 



Bee-Keeping in Texas. 



While bee-men in the north are wish- 

 ing that their beehives were blocks of 

 priceless coal, I am tempted to write a 

 few lines to apprise ycu of conditions 

 in central Texas, with special reference 

 to the bees. 



During the month of January we have 

 had but three frosts : the days have for 

 the most part been warm and sunny, and 

 the lowest temperature recorded for the 

 month was 24 degrees (that's above zero. 



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