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TEE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



Well, friend D. can't you do better 

 than that? Our plan to secure and 

 preserve drones late in the season has 

 been to place a frame of nice drone 

 comb in the centre of the brood-nest 

 of the colony the drones were to be 

 reared in. l"he comb is then left till 

 nearly all the brood is capped, it is 

 then removed and placed in a colony 

 that has no queen, but plenty of queen 

 cells. 



Nearly all the Punic drones Bro. 

 Pratt and ourselves have used this sea- 

 son were reared in the Bay State apia- 

 ry. We still have a fine lot of them. 

 There are now (Sept. 20), about 1000 

 capped drones in our best golden Car- 

 niolan colony. If Brother D. will read 

 our work on queen-rearing he will find 

 therein a method for ''rearing and pre- 

 serving drones late in the season." 

 Try it, Bro. D., and you will have no 

 further trouble in the line of which you 

 complain. 



By the way, Bro. D. told us last win- 

 ter that the drones reared late in the 

 season would live over till the next 

 March or May. We claimed that they 

 would not. 



Now, Bro. D. says, in the above, 

 drones reared in July "play out" before 

 October. Well, tliey will, and thirty 

 days, at least, before October comes in. 

 Drones reared late in August will hardly 

 see October. That has been our ex- 

 perience. 



abused for being so enterprising and for 

 attempting to do his English beekeepers 

 a good service. We had an idea that 

 some American beekeepers had a mo- 

 nopoly of such contemptible business, 

 but it seems we were mistaken. 



PUNIC BKES IN ENGLAND. 



A writer in the Canadian Bee Jour- 

 nal says Punic bees are not advertised 

 in any English bqepaper. Nothing 

 strange in that, and the reason therefor 

 can and will be given later. A good 

 many things used by American beekeep- 

 ers are not advertised in English bee- 

 papers. We have the Punic bees all 

 the same. Will say too, that Punic 

 bees are advertised in some of the pa- 

 pers published in England. 



Mr. John Hewett of England, the 

 man who imported the first Punic queens 

 from Africa to England, and afterwards 

 sent them to America, is now roundly 



CONFUSION OF THK RACES OF BEES. 



Several parlies have said there are no 

 golden Carniolans. Now comes a man 

 who says there are no Punic bees. Let 

 some one arise and say there are no 

 Italians, no black or hybrid bees. That, 

 it seems to us, would settle it. Let 

 some beekeeper get up and make an 

 exhibition of his ignorance of these 

 things and the dispute will soon be set- 

 tled. So far as we know, not one of the 

 parties who claim there are no yellow 

 Carniolans and no Punic bees have ever 

 investigated or had any experience in 

 the matter. Now the best way fur D. 

 A. Jones, W. Z. Hutch., C.J. Robinson, 

 and a few others to settle this question 

 is to try our method for producing yel- 

 low Carniolan bees. By so doing, 

 these friends might have some excuse 

 for the baseless reinarks they are con- 

 tinually making. 



THE HONEY CROP OF 1891. 



Is it a large or a small crop? We 

 confess that reports received are greatly 

 mixed. Think we had better put it 

 down as an average crop and let it pass. 

 The Vermont beekeepers have sent a 

 fine lot of honey to that city. There 

 has been nothing like it seen in Boston 

 for several years. It can be purchased, 

 by the crate, at about fifteen cents per 

 lb. It \.ill probably net the producer 

 twelve cents per lb. 



BREEDING AND IMPORTING NKW RACES OF 

 BEES. 



New strains and new-fangled notions 

 in reference to bees, says D. A. Jones, 

 seems to be the order of the day. Men- 

 tion a way in which bees may be im- 

 proved, and it will not be long before 

 you will find somebody advertising 

 something, which they claim possesses 

 wonderful merits. 



There seems to be a disposition in the 

 direction of a craze for bees that will 



