THE AM Eli WAN APICULTURIST. 



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All ihcse nuclei lia\e to be fed twice 

 each week, and our old horse and our- 

 selves are kept ])rettv busy going from 

 yard to yard. 



A I.AKlii; Sllir.Ml'.NT OK QUICENS. 



During the week ending July i8, 

 there were one hundred and fifty queens 

 shipped from the liay State queen-rear- 

 ing a[)iaries. We believe this is the 

 largest number any (jueen dealer in the 

 world has ever shipped in the same 

 number of days. 



Over 500 ([ueens have been shipped 

 from our apiary up to date (July 18). 



Thus far there has been but one un- 

 fiivorable spell of weather to interfere 

 with queen rearing. This occurred be- 

 tween July I and r 1 . 



TOBACCO I\ IN'TUi)DtrCIXG (JUKEXS. 



We have always used the smoke of 

 tobacco in introducing queens, and 

 with the best results at all times. 



]5rother A. I. Root has recently tried 

 it, and seems quite satisfied with the re- 

 sult. This is how Brother Root did it. 



I oiniUccl to say,'tli;vt, as a further pic- 

 c;uuii)n, I went round towards evening- 

 to all tlie colonics that had an ini|)orted 

 queen, and blew tobaeco smoke in i\.\. ilie 

 entrance — enouijh to give tliera all one 

 scent. As all the queens were success- 

 fully introduced except llie two tlnit wei-e 

 so leeble, I do not know liow much eflcct 

 the tobacco had. But this I do know: 

 Last year wo received an importation of 

 some lift}' queens. Half of the number 

 were given to noigidjor II., and lialf we 

 retained in onrown yard. They were all, 

 or nearly all, caged by the candy method. 

 We lost 2.") per cent of those we intro- 

 duced, while neiglibor H. lost none. In 

 comparing notes we found that lie had 

 smoked Ins the night liefore thoroughly 

 Willi tobacco smoke, while we did not ob- 

 serve this precaution. You know how 

 we stand on tiie tobacco question in re- 

 gard to its use by the genus homo. But 

 a good many bad tilings (or tldiigs which 

 are usually used in a bad way) have cer- 

 tain legitimate uses. There is nothing 

 else that gives such a strong, clinging 

 odor as does tobacco. — Gleaninys. 



Tobacco will do it every time. Im- 

 mediate introduction of queens by to- 

 bacco smoke is one of our hobbies. 



We have introduced hundreds of([uc(.ns 

 at the time the colony was decjueened. 

 There is no way it can be done suc- 

 cessfully exce])t by using tobacco. 



\Ve use tobacco in a pipe made for 

 the sole purpose of introducing queens 

 and handling bees. Thousands of 

 them have l>een mailed from here. 

 Now we propose to give each purchaser 

 of a Punic queen one of these pi[)es, 

 all loaded for use with tobacco. As 

 we guarantee safe introduction we want 

 each purchaser to have one of the 

 pipes. The pipe will be sent by mail. 



SLANDKR A.Xl) MISllKPUIOSEX rATIOX. 



The following piece of slander and 

 falsehood is from the circular of Jacob 

 Timpe. 



Many of the breeders use nuclei, witli 

 combs no larger than 41 by 4^. or merely 

 sections, mid iv L. Pralt, Beverly, Mass., 

 and II. Alley, Weiiham, Mass., openly ad- 

 vocate their use, the latter showing illus- 

 trations where lie has Iiis cells bnilt on 

 5 by 5 inch frames. The past season I 

 tried nineteen hives of the section frames 

 for mating queens to my sorrow. My 

 conscience will not allow me to do so any 

 more. Would you want sncli queens? 

 Those are cheap queens and cheap pro- 

 duction, and very, very dear in the end. 



My yard is open to inspection. I use 

 only full colonies for cell building, and 

 3 frame 13i by 9^ inches. Nuclei for mat- 

 ing purposes. If any queen that I send 

 out the coming season (except viruin) 

 prove mismated or worthless, I faithfully 

 promise to re fill the order gratis. 



E. L. Pratt and H. Alley rear no 

 queens on such frames as the author of 

 the above would have his readers be- 

 lieve. Well, now suppose we did rear 

 queens and have them fertilized on 

 those small frames, what has the frame 

 to do with the quality of the queens so 

 reared ? 



Some years ago we did rear (jueeas 

 on small frames, but we used from twen- 

 ty-si.K to forty such franies in one hive 

 in which the cells were being built. 

 The largest colonies were utilized to 

 construct the cells. What a simple fellow 

 this man Timj^e must be, if he has an 

 idea that the illustration in our book 



