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THE AMERICAN APICULTUBIST. 



will live and be in good condition for 

 a week after being received. If the 

 directions sent with the queen for in- 

 troducing are strictly followed, safe in- 

 troduction will be guaranteed. 



2. If you are not wilhng to wait for 

 your order to be filled, do not order ; 

 we cannot fill orders for several hun- 

 dred queens in one week. Then, again, 

 we cannot control the weather, and 

 when a week of dull weather is upon 

 us, no queens will be fertilized, and we 

 must wait until they are fertiUzed he- 

 fore shipping them. 



Now please bear in mind thai we 

 cannot ship you purely mated queens 

 of this race before Aug. lo. 



We are making preparations to rear 

 and ship 500 Punic queens between 

 July 25 and Sept. 30. Send your or- 

 der in early and the queens will be 

 mailed as promptly as possible. 



Right here we will say that E. L. 

 Pratt is in no way connected with us 

 in business. Brother Pratt runs his 

 own business and we do the same. 

 Our yards are located but two miles 

 apart and we get along very well and 

 help each other as much as possible. 

 In fact, we are working for our own 

 good as well as for the advantage of our 

 customers. 



Brother Pratt has been furnished 

 with sev'eral golden Carniolan queens 

 from tlje Bay State Apiary, and we have 

 in return received several Punic queens. 

 One of the latter is an imported queen. 



For prices of Punic bees and queens 

 see page 116. 



BIG ORDERS FOU GOLDEN CARXIOLANS. 



We are receiving more orders for 

 golden Carniolan queens than for Ital- 

 ians. This seems to look as though my 

 old friends are not much afraid of being 

 swindled. Please read the testimonials 

 in this issue from those who have re- 

 ceived their queens this year. Many 

 thanks to Bros. Q., L.and R. If Quigley 

 does not stop this free adv. he lias been 

 giving the golden Carniolans, we shall be 

 obliged to employ some of the noted 

 queen breeders to help us out. Fifty or- 



ders per day for these queens is about as 

 much business as we can attend to 



Mr. Frank Henton tells tiie readers 

 of the American Beekeeper that there 

 are no such bees as yellow Carniolans. 

 Benton is not posted. Now, Mr. F. , 

 B., we make this proposition : ' If 

 you will send two of the purest dark 

 Carniolan queens found in your coun- 

 try to some reliable queen dealer, whom 

 A. I. Root shall name, and i he will 

 follow our instructions and cannot ])ro- 

 duce beautiful golden (]ueens and bees 

 from these two queens after breeding a 

 few generations, then we will give in that 

 there are no such bees as yellow Car- 

 niolans. 



If F. B. will look this issue over care- 

 fully, he will find i)lenty of evidence 

 concerning this matter to convince him 

 that the position we have taken con- 

 cerning the Carniolans is correct. We 

 called upon no one to verify our state- 

 ments, or to give tlieir experience. 

 What is published came to the Api un- 

 solicited. 



Any beekeeper can take the darkest 

 Carniolan bees and in a short time pro- 

 duce the most beautiful yellow cpieens 

 and bees from them. Try it. 



Again, I say that the yellow Carnio- 

 lan bees are the original yellow race. 

 This statement has not been contro- 

 verted by any evidence yet given by 

 Benton, Quigley, Robinson and Co. 



OUR QUEKN VAKDS. 



Perhaps some of our readers may 

 have an idea that we rear all our queens 

 and have them fertilized in the same 

 yard. This is not so. Our golden 

 Carniolans (we have no dark Carnio- 

 lans) are kept in a yard two miles from 

 all other bees ; this yard is directly east 

 of our home apiary. About one hun- 

 dred nucleus colonies are kept in the 

 home yard, but as the drone-trap is 

 kept on the full colonies, except those 

 whose drones we use for our young 

 queens, there is no mixing of the 

 races. Then we have another queen 

 yard of over 100 nuclei two miles west 

 of the home yard. 



