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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



might be subsisting on the honey, I put 

 on part of the patent hiver, and when 

 they came out they could not return so 

 that large numbers perished. 



The bees do not appear to be spec- 

 ially active in the hive and I do not think 

 they are storing honey. 



Did I do right in destroying the 

 drones ? 



Why don't they store honey? 



They are Itahan bees and recom- 

 mended as good workers. 



If you or any of your experienced 

 and valuable correspondents of the Api- 

 CULTURiST will set me right through your 

 valuable journal, I will he much obliged. 

 Having purchased a colony of bees, I 

 want to make a success of them. But 

 no doubt you have discovered that I am 

 a novice and need instruction. 



Trusting that I shall get set right, 



I remain yours truly, 



Elisha Myrick, Meh'ose, Mass. 



Bees in tliis viriiiity ;ire not very active 

 after July 10. Tliere is nothinjr for tliein 

 to do bnt to ioat Iroin July 10 to Aug. 20, 

 when the fall honey comes on. 



Yes, you dhl riglit in destroying apart 

 of ihe drones. — Ed.] 



fraternity, and lo and behold, friend ! 

 the half has not yet been told of Mr. 

 Alley's queens. 



Samuel Thralls, BlacJanlle, W. Va. 



AN ENTUUSIASIIC liEEKEKPEHS' OPINION 



OF QUEKNS KEAKED VWOM OUR HLNUltED 



DOLL.\U QUEEN. 



Friend Alley : Accept my order for 

 four queens from your one hundred 

 dollar queen. It is a pleasure indeed 

 to me to know where I can obtain the 

 best queens in the United States. 



I wish to inform the kind readers of 

 the Api, if they will call at my store in 

 Blacksville, W. Va , I will gladly take 

 them to my api:iry and show them a 

 colony of bees with the most beautiful 

 queen and uniform progeny that ever 

 they beheld, raised from a royal daugh- 

 ter of friend Alley's one-hundred dollar 

 queen. I am confident my friend will 

 exclaim as did Bro. A. I. Root. I am 

 surprised, yea, astonished, at the state 

 of perfection in queen-rearing to which 

 friend Alley has attained. This I say 

 from a personal and practical experience 

 in beekeeping for the benefit of the 



DESTROYING MOTHS; THE HONEY SEASON 



IN TEXAS; MAKING QUII.T^ FOU HIVES; 



A BEE PAPER NEEDED DOWN SOUTH. 



Mr. Editor : I will give you a few 

 notes from the Lone Star state. The 

 swarming season is upon us. Prospects 

 good for a honey crop. As we are trou- 

 bled with moths on our empty combs, 

 I will tell you how to beat them. When 

 a trace of moth is found, soak your 

 frames in clear water 24 hours and place 

 them in extractor and throw water out 

 and hang up to dry. To make quilts to 

 cover hives, take any thin cloth, dip in 

 melted bees wax and bees won't cut 

 them much. We need a Southern Bee 

 Journal or a Southern Department in 

 some of the prominent journals. With 

 nearly 200 full colonies now at swarm- 

 ing time we don't get time to walk 

 much ; it's a skip, hop and a jump. 

 Jennie Atchley, Farmersville, Texas. 



STILL ANOTHER GOOD QUEEN. 



Hemky Alley : I enclose you 75 cts. 

 in stamps to pay for the queen you sent 

 me to take the place of one that died. 

 Many thanks. She could not be had 

 for four times the amount. Have raised 

 a few from her which are very pretty. 

 Hope you may have good success. 



A. L. Beach, Pineville, N. C. 



A GOOD REPORT FRO.M TEX.AS. 



Mr. H. Alley: As I never see any- 

 thing in the Api from this portion of the 

 sunny south, I thought I would let you 

 know we are keeping bees. Down here, 

 bees began gathering pollen early in 

 February. Brood-rearing is now ' in 

 progress in the Lone Star Apiary, owned 

 by Mr. Urban, of Thorndale. Some 

 of the finest Italian I)ees in the world 

 can be seen in his large apiary, and 

 some of them came from the Bay State 

 Apiary. We never have any trouble in 

 wintering bees here ; the weather is 



