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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



never saw the bees work smarter, nor 

 the weather more favorable, 



ORDERS FOR QUEENS, ETC. 



Up to date (Sept. 20), we have had 

 orders for queens from six hundred and 

 forty beekeepers. Ten hundred .and 

 forty-seven queens have been mailed 

 since May 20, leaving orders on our 

 books for about one hundred and twenty- 

 five queens. Of the number of queens 

 sent out fully five hundred were golden 

 Carniolans. (The exact number will 

 be given in the November Api.) 



We still have a few queens ready to 

 mail or enough to make this year's ship- 

 ments reach 1,300 in all. 



Those unacquainted with the work 

 of rearing queens have but little idea of 

 the amount of labor required to rear and 

 ship such a large number. Considering 

 that our apiaries for the different races 

 are situated several miles apart, and also 

 that it is necessary to go to each yard 

 as often as once each day, and very 

 often to all the yards several times a day, 

 you must know that our hands have 

 been kept pretty busy all the season, 

 from May i to Oct. i. We have had 

 i:iot over two days' help during the en- 

 tire summer. 



In addition to the above we have done 

 the work of the Api ; registered every 

 order and written several thousands of 

 letters ; nearly fifty letters each week. 



A LARGE ORDER FOR GOLDEN CARXIOLAN 



QUEENS. 



One man has ordered fifty golden 

 Carniolan queens of us. As our friends, 

 the enemy, will say this is some of Al- 

 ley's bragging, we give the fiill address 

 of the party who sent the order — W. C. 

 Lowton, Staten Island, Walnut Grove, 

 Cal. 



If J. C. Robinson has any knowledge 

 of bees, he has kept it well from the 

 public eye. He tells us all about the 

 golden Carniolan bees, yet he has never 

 seen one. The fact is, he is a disturber 



of the peace, and in order to make out 

 a case against a person jumps over all 

 decency and fairness. That he does 

 not value his word for truth and verac- 

 ity, is evidenced in any of the articles 

 he sends to the bee-papers. 



PREVENTION OF SWARMING. 



Rev, W. P. Faylor says in the A. B. 

 J., " The more we keep our bees from 

 swarming, the less will they be inclined 

 to swarm in the future. The instinct 

 of the bee can certainly be improved," 



This is a subject that has been talked 

 about very recently in the Bay State 

 Apiary. The question is, How shall we 

 prevent swarming? We have noticed 

 when swarms issue through a drone- 

 trap once or twice they get discouraged 

 and will not try it again the same sea- 

 son. There is no mistake about the 

 fact of discouragement. Place a trap 

 on the hive ; let the bees issue through 

 it twice ; then destroy the queen cells 

 and allow the old queen to return. 



There is no doubt that the swarming 

 impulse can be bred out of any race of 

 bees in the course of a few years' treat- 

 ment in the riuht direction. 



THE GROWLERS. 



Once in a while a customer gets out 

 of patience and threatens to have us 

 shown up in certain bee-papers. One 

 man in Denver, Colorado, sent an or- 

 der for a small saw and two queens. The 

 name of the street on which he resides 

 is IVazee. We could make only JJ'ayne 

 out of it in the way it was written. 

 There was some delay in getting the 

 saw made but the queens were shipped 

 promptly, and as the name of the street 

 was incorrect the queens were not re- 

 ceived, nor heard from. The saw was sent 

 but as no name of street was written on 

 the package, that was returned to ship- 

 per. Well, the man howled and wanted 

 his goods ; but as he did not give his 



