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duced beautiful thrco-banded beos, I 

 would call her a purely-mated queen, 

 and mail her at once. My customer 

 would be disappointed when he found 

 out, in trying to roar pure queens for 

 sale from th<; queen I had sent him, that 

 she had mated with a black drone ! Mo, 

 sir ; 1 believe that " black blood " 

 mixed up with the yellow will tell every 

 time. Such has been my experience, 

 and I have been ' so taught by the bee 

 books and papers. I would like to hear 

 from Mr. Doolittle, or some other noted 

 queen-breeder, on this subject. 



Italian drones are more active than 

 the blacks. I believe that with equal 

 numbers of the Italians and blacks in 

 the same yard, the Italians will pre- 

 dominate ; that there will be a larger 

 percentage more of the young queens 

 mated with Italians than with the 

 blacks, there being no advantage on 

 either side by the bees in the surround- 

 ing country. 



I have in my yard a fine Italian queen 

 that produces bees with three nice yel- 

 low bands ; from the bands out is a 

 beautiful gray. The drones of this 

 queen are very smart and active, flying 

 when no other drones are flying. This 

 smart trait is in all the daughters of that 

 queen, and a large percentage of my 

 young queens are mated with the drones 

 from three of these queens. I can tell 

 by the steel-gray color on the rear ends 

 of the bees from the yellow bands out. 

 The bees of these queens show the same 

 activeness, and are about the best I have 

 in my yard. 



I am very much interested in this 

 queen question. If a queen mated with 

 a black drone will produce all beautiful 

 three or more yellow banded bees, I 

 want to know it. I also want to know 

 how to test a queen, if Mr. Wheeler's 

 theory be true. I do not write this to 

 get up a controversy, but I want light, 

 and I hope that the old veterans will be 

 kind enough to " turn on the light." 



Woodside, N. C. 



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 are fertilized in upper stories, while an 

 old Queen is laying below — how to safely 

 introduce Queens at any time when bees 

 can fly — all about different bees, ship- 

 ping Queens, forming nuclei, multiply- 

 ing or uniting colonies, etc. — send us 

 $1.00 for " Doolittle's Queen-Rearing ;" 

 170 pages ; bound in cloth, and as in- 

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COWVEIVTIOM DIRECTORY. 



Time and place of meeting. 



1892. 



Apr. 6, 7.— Texas State, at Greenville, Tex. 

 A. H. Jones, Sec, Golden, Tex. 



Apr. 7.— Utah, at Salt Lake City, Utah. 

 John C. Swaiior, Sec, Salt Lake City, Utah. 



Apr.7, 8.— Missouri State, at Wairensburg-, Mo. 

 W. S. Doru JJlaser, See, Higginsville, Mo. 



Apr. 21.— Colorado State, al Golden, Colo. 



H. Knight, Sec, Littleton. Colo. 



May 5.— Susquehanna Co.,- at Brooklyn, Pa. 

 H. M. Seeley, Sec, Hstrford, Pa. 



May 28.— Haldimand, at Nelles' Corners, Ont. 

 E. C. Campbell, Sec. Cayuga. Ont. 



In order to have this table complete, 

 Secretaries are requested to forward full 

 particulars of the time and the place of 

 each future meeting. — The Editor. 



North American Bee-Keepers' Association 



President— Eugene Socor.. Forest City, Iowa. 

 Secretary- W. Z. Hutchinson Flint, Mich. 



XTational Bee-Keepers' Union. 



President— James Heddon ..Dowaglac, Mich. 

 Seo'y and Manager— T. G. Newman, Chicago. 



Bee apd Hopeh Gossip. 



I^~ Do not write anything for publication 

 on the same sheet of paper witli business 

 matters, unless it can be torn apart without 

 interfering with either part of the letter. 



First Swarm this Season. 



I am one ahead, and will bet that we 

 caught the first swarra of bees of the 

 season. It came about in this way : 

 We have been stimulating our bees by 

 placing hay along the front of the hives, 

 then pouring syrup on the hay, and the 

 bees helped themselves on fine days. 

 February 8 was a very fine day, and a 

 starving swarm came and clustered on 

 one of our hives. It is a fair swarm of 

 hybrids, and the queen is active and 

 'liealthy. This would appear that they 

 knew whether they would be cared for. 

 Mattie Robt. 



Chanute, Kans., March 5, 1892. 



Open "Winter and Typhoid Fever. 



We have had an open Winter with the 

 exception of a few weeks in January, 

 when it was quite cold. We had two 

 weeks of sleighing. Bees have had 



