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look out, it is good-bye. But this only 

 proves them to be rustlers, and where 

 the apiary is all 5-banded, they do not 

 stand much show, as they are as good to 

 defend as they are bad to rob. 



After a five years' carefui test, I am 

 satisfied to hold on to my " Goldens," as 

 well as to the old mossback or leather- 

 colored Italians. They both suit me to 

 to a "t." If I were going to run an apiary 

 for comb honey, give me 5-banded bees ; 

 if for extracted, common Italians. 

 Either one of these strains of bees is 

 good enough for the Joneses, and it is 

 said they are the best people in the 

 world. For beauty, the "Goldens" 

 stand at the head, but for business I 

 cannot find any improvement worth 

 mentioning over the old three-banded 

 Italians. 



CARNIOLAN BEES. 



This beautiful race of silver-gray bees 

 I have given a thorough test the last 

 two years, and their queens are the most 

 prolific of any strain of bees I ever saw. 

 They build up faster, and get ready for 

 a honey-flow quicker than any bees I 

 ever had. They are, as a rule, the most 

 docile race of bees in America, or that is 

 my opinion. Out of the six fine breeders, 

 this year, only one produced bees that 

 cannot be handled without smoke. They 

 store white honey, or, like the blacks, 

 do not quite fill the cells, which leaves 

 their combs white. 



They are not disposed to rob, nor do 

 they let a robber in if there is any 

 chance to keep her out. But I do be- 

 lieve that they are the worst swarmers 

 of the whole business. They would 

 swarm and re-swarm, and then rest 

 awhile and swarm again. But they 

 seem to know that they must stop long 

 enough to fill their supers before frost, 

 and all colonies that had a chance came 

 out with well filled supers on the home 

 stretch. 



CYPRIAN — HOLY-LAND — ALBINO. 



I have given the Cyprians, Holy-Lands 

 and Albino bees a fair test. The Albino 

 is too much on the sleepy order for me, 

 and the Cyprians and Holy-Lands are 

 too stingy to be used by most people, 

 otherwise they are good bees, and I can 

 produce fine honey crops with them. 



Now, I have written out this history 

 of the different races of bees, giving 

 their characteristics just as experience 

 has taught me, by actual practice right 

 in the bee-yards, without the least bit of 

 partiality on my part. While my ex- 

 perience along these lines may not be in 

 accord with others, I mean to give my 



own experience pure and simple, for 

 what it is worth, to ray readers, and you 

 may rest assured that I have given it 

 as nearly right as I know how. 



Jennie Atchley. 

 (To be continued.) 



DnltliiE Bees in llie Fall. 



<luery 945.— What is your favorite way of 

 uniting- bees in the fail ?— Wisconsin. 



My favorite way is not to unite them 

 — Eugene Secor. 



My experience along this line has no 

 been very satisfactory. — J. M. Ham- 



BAU6H. 



I never unite any in the fall. We 

 make all of our increase by division or 

 artificial swarms, and never have weak 

 ones in the fall.— E. France. 



By filling one brood-box with the 

 frames and all the bees of both swarms, 

 and plenty of honey for winter, then 

 smoke thoroughly.— W. G. Larrabee. 



Read a bee-book upon the subject. 

 The space here at command is entirely 

 too small to intelligently answer such 

 questions as you ask. — W. M. Barnum. 



I seldom unite. I don't want them 

 in that condition that they must be 

 united. In many cases it is best to use 

 a little sulphur and " unite the hives." 

 — H. D. Cutting. 



I remove the poorest queen, use frames 

 from both hives, and shake all the bees 

 into the hive from which the poorest 

 queen was taken. Before this I have 

 moved the hives close together. — A. J. 

 Cook. 



Remove the poorest queen, if any dif- 

 ference ; alternate frames from each to 

 be united in a new hive, or a hive that 

 neither of those to be united have oc- 

 cupied. When thoroughly mixed, smoke 

 moderately.— S. I. Freeborn. 



My hives tier up nicely. I Just set 

 one colony on top of the other, quietly, 

 on a cool evening, without arousing the 



