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THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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HAS BHIC CULTURK ADVANCED? 



This question has but one answer. 

 Bee culture has made rapid advance- 

 ment every year the last quarter cen- 

 tury. Compare our hives, sections, 

 smokers, and in fact all the imple- 

 ments of the present day used in the 

 ajjiary, with those in use no longer than 

 twenty yeai's ago. Note the improved 

 machinery novv in use for the manu- 

 facture of hives and sections, especi- 

 ally that of one-piece sections. In 

 the matter of honey extractors see 

 the great improvement. Just look 

 at one of A. I. Root's extractors ; 

 compare it with the old wooden bariel 

 and wooden reel of the first extractor 

 sent us. 



Consider the impioved methods of 

 hantlliug bees, increasing colonies, 

 and producing comb and extracted 

 honey. The improved races of bees 

 are not the least to be spoken of 

 here. Haven't we advanced? 



There is but one thing that bee 

 keepers have not improved upon, that 

 is the weather. This is beyond our 

 control. See how we have imi)rovetl 

 every thing connected with beekeep- 

 ing. Now, it has been demon- 

 strated that some one can produce 

 rain at will. Let us hope some method 

 will be devised for driving away 

 clouds and rain, and producing just 

 the weather the beekeeper needs for 

 the secretion of honey in the flowers. 

 Beekeepers then will be all right. 



PACKIXG BEES IN WINTER. 



Don't pack, is our advice, except 

 over the combs. Leave a free circula- 

 tion of air all around the brood-cham- 

 ber. Use outside cases on all your 

 hives in winter. Bees winter much 

 better on summer stands in double 

 hives than when placed in cellars. 



Don't fail to read our new club and pre- 

 mium list fouud ou another page this 

 issue. 



PLKASANT READING. 



So much has been said against the 

 golder Cai'uiolan bees that it is a great 

 pleasure to read what some of our 

 customers say concerning them. All 

 readers of Gleanings are acquainted 

 with Mrs. L. C. Axtell, as her name 

 often appears in that paper. Tlien 

 again, all whose disposition wauld al- 

 low it have given the golden Carnio- 

 lan bees a liaid hit, and so I'd like to 

 shovv both sides of the question. 



Mrs. Axtell bought and paid for all 

 the golden Carniolan queens we sent 

 her, so what she says of them must 

 not be considered apaid-forpuff. Here 

 it is : 



"The two Caniiolnn queens received 

 and introduced nil rigiit on brood and 

 nearly built up into good colonies. When 

 I opened the hives I found a large quan- 

 tity of eggs laid and both queens standing 

 quietly on the coniljs, not looking the least 

 frightened. Oh! you maybe sure I was 

 just delighted, such great nice looking 

 queens. 



They look very different from Italian 

 queens, altliough they are solid yellow, or 

 golden. I doubt if there is another col- 

 ony among all our 240 colonies of bees 

 that has so many eggs in the hive now, as 

 has one of those Carniolans. 



Mrs. L. C. Axtell. 



Oct. 1, 1891. 



Mrs. A. does not see much Italian' 

 blood in tlie Carniolans. Some other 

 people who never saw a yellow Car- 

 niolan queen or bee can see nothing 

 but Italitm in them. Bah ! stop your 

 foolish and almost insane harangue 

 about golden Carniolans being a mix- 

 ture of the Italian and dark Carniolan 

 races. Leave out the spite and try to 

 recover your senses. 



