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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



[November, 



"I never saw^ the honey bee (neither dent one time a yellow drone, the 

 black nor yellow) at the same time other time a black. Some of the 

 with the stingless, on the same tree.' workers of this queen are black, and 

 Yet I have seen them there at other some yellow; that may be the cause 

 times. One could infer from that of her mismating. Somehow I sup- 

 that they are enemies, with the odds pose it's hard to get pure stock, 

 in favor of the stingless bee. That About the laziness of bees I take 

 would say domestication, even if sides with the lazy party, with the 

 possible, would be of doubtful value, exception that a bee out for honey 



I have a queen, daughter of an im- is anything but lazy; that is, as far 



ported Italian queen, supposed to be as my observation goes, 



pure, that has black and yellow I have a metal comb foundation 



drones emerging at the same time, press which I term a nuisance. I 



as I have seen by cutting out drone suppose in a cooler climate it might 



comb. work better. One defect of it is also 



As I understand, the theory goes the depth of the cell walls and the 



that mating has no influence on the sharp edges which form the cell bot- 



drone progeny. If this is true, then tom. This press is from the original 



T must believe the mother was mis- Rietsche factory. It does not pay 



mated or some kind of a mongrel, to make foundations, not even here 



Other daughters of the imported one where a pound of foundation from 



have yellow drones, or is this proba- the north costs 75 cents, about 8 



bly a support of the new theory of sheets Langstroth size to the pound, 



repeated mating of queens by acci- Joseph Braun. 



Transporting Bees in the Caucasian Mountains. 

 A Difficult Descent. 



HONEY FROM COTTON 

 BLOOM. 



L. B. SMITH. 



IT HAS always been a surprise 

 to the writer to see how many 

 practical apiarists there really 

 were that had no knowledge of what 

 their surplus honey was gathered 

 from; and still a greater surprise to 

 see how few knew the quality of the 



honey that was gathered from cer- 

 tain plants and shubs of their knowl- 

 edge. To illustrate — a bee-keeper of 

 considerable reputation as a honey 

 producer once said to me something 

 as follows when discussing the honey 

 producing plants of our localities: 

 "Say, Mr. Smith, did you know that 

 the cotton bloom furnished 2 grades 

 of honey, that is, a light and a dark 



