THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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Ancnt Golden Ciiniiolans. J. A. Green, 

 ill A. B. '/., wants to know, if tliey are 

 pure, ami iCit is llie natural teiuleney of 

 Ciiiuiolans to turn yellow, wliy they don't 

 follow out that natural tendency in their 

 native land. Don't ask imiicrtiuent (jues- 

 tions, Jlninne. Dii. Millku. 



This question c:in be answered by 

 asking another. Suppose the word 

 Carniolana in the above is made to 

 read Italians, tlien how does it woik? 

 Why is it if the true color of the Ital- 

 ion is yellow that they do not follow 

 out the natural tendency and be all 

 yellow instead of badly marked hy- 

 brids? 



Ah ! now a prominent beekeeper 

 travelling in Italy, has discovereti the 

 fact that bees of that country are 

 not yellow-banded at all. Here is a 

 nut for the know-it-all to crack. The 

 readers interested in the question of 

 yellovv Carniolan bees are kindly re- 

 ferred to the article of Mr. Demaree 

 and the extracts from a private letter 

 from a prominent English beekeeper, 

 all found in this issue of the An. 

 Tliose who read this copy of the Api 

 carefully, if fair-minded, will sa}' that 

 the Api is well sustained in its o})in- 

 ions, and in the statement conceining 

 the tendency to yellow markings of 

 the Carniolans was not the result of 

 being crossed in the Bay Slate Apiary. 



A prominent and probably the best 

 posted person on bee culture, P>ngland 

 has, writes to a friend in this coun- 

 try as follows : — ''Alley and 30U may 

 think the l)ees of Carniohtn queens are 

 dark with no trace of yellovv when 

 pure The fact is, so many yellow 

 bees have been imported, Italian, Cy- 

 prian and Syrians that very few pure 

 Carniolan bees are found. You are 

 right to call them yellow Carniolans, 

 but wrong to call them jmre Carnio- 

 lans. The best and nearest Cainiolan 

 bees Benton sent me produced yellow 

 bees and queens." 



There, friends ! how does that look ? 

 Does not this satisfy any reasonable 

 person that it is an easy matter to 



breed a strain of yellow bees from 

 dark Carniolans? 



Does any one see anything in the 

 above that would lead them to be- 

 lieve the yellovv Carniolans were pro- 

 duced in the Bay Stale A[)iary by 

 crossing the daik Carniolan and Ital- 

 ians? Haven't the leaders of the Api 

 been told re|)eatedU'^ how easily any 

 one can produce yellow Carniolans 

 from the (lark strain? 



Any one can do it and not use one 

 particle of Italian blood in the pro- 

 cess. 



J. A. Green has sent an article to 

 a beepaper regarding the yellow Car- 

 niolans. He claims he has completely 

 knocked the Api arguments out. A 

 person of that style should have the en- 

 tire field to operate in. His argument 

 is as silly as it is weak, and in nowise 

 meets the points under discussion. 

 'Tis the same old story. He accuses 

 us of mixing the Italian and dark Car- 

 niolans in order to [iroduce the yellow 

 Carniolans, Well, what can the man 

 do? He has had no experience to 

 meet the points made and must resort 

 to abuse and vile epithets. 



How man}' readers of the Api have 

 discovered the fact that when two per- 

 sons get into an altercation over most 

 any subject, the party that gets beaten 

 shrieks out, "you're a liar." 



This is the case with Green and 

 several others who have tried to dis- 

 cuss the yellow Carniolan question. 

 Neail}' every one has intimated that 

 Alley is a liar and a fraud. Those 

 who have purchased yellow Carniolan 

 queens are with the Api in this mat- 

 ter. The cranks are out in the cold. 



J. A. Green sa3'S in one of our ex- 

 changes "that he does not consider 

 the columns of a public journal a 

 proper place for abuse and vitupera- 

 tion." He then goes on in the next 

 paragrai)h and gives the editor of the 

 Api a terrible raking without regard 

 to truth. 



