The American Apiculturist 



A JOURNAL FOR THE NOVICE AND EXPERT. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. WENHAM, MASS. 



SUPPEMENT, JANUARY, 1890 



RRisiiig Qiiffi. Bees for the YiarUet-Hnbits ^j^g price ranges as liisfh as $io. Mr. 



and l^eiijitli of Liite ot' the i^itlle I<isect8. ^ 



llt^ '4.4.\ u 11^ ^ ^«-:ii Pratt has one Ijreedinsf qlieen for 



"Uon t thrash around. Keep still. ° ^ 



T *. 4-1 1-14. 1 4- J '4- 4. . which lie says he would not take 



Let them light on you, but don t try 



to brush them off. You won't be ^'^^- '^^^'^ difference in price is 



stung it you keep still. Why, they ^^^"^'^^^ '^^ ^^^ development ot good 



.1 4- ^1 1 4-1 -c points, the same as the prices of 



are the most gentle bees there are ir r" ' ^ 



1 ,. , ,1 ,, horses differ for the same reason, 



you don t aggravate them. 



T 4. • • u 11 This particular queen will have its 



Just imagine yourselt surrounded ^ ^ 



11 I ] r 1 "^ 1 1- 1 4-- life prolonged a year or more by 



by hundreds 01 bees who are lighting k » j 



r 1 J 1 1 1 r 4- keeping her with a small colony. vShe 



on face, neck and hands, whose feet P t^ "^ _ _ J 



r ^ • I . 4.- I 1- 1 1 4- I 1 is capable of depositing about ^000 



reel mighty ticklish, and you are told ^ f . 



4.1 4. ' , 4. 4.1 I u t • 4- eggs per day, but by scientific meth- 



that you must not thrash, but just i^i:> f ji j 



1 \■^^ ] I <- 4-1 1V4-1 • xi. 1 ods and by having her reign over but 



keep still and let the little insects have j » t> 



11 4.1 r ^1 , •.] a small colony she will lav about 300 



all the run they want with you. -^ . o 



The Globe man yesterday inspected ^SS^ P^'" '^'^"^• 

 the colonies of bees of Eugene L. A queen bee when shipped to a 



Pratt, Marlboro, xMass., who is a customer by mail, is placed in a small 



breeder of queen bees. He does not bo>^ -il^o^it an inch deep and wide and 



keep bees for honey, but is a breeder four inches long. With her are 



of fancy stock, to which he gives as placed from eight to ten "workers," 



much time and attention as if he was who feed her on her journey with 



breeding blooded and thoroughbred the paste prepared, which is made of 



stock of greater dimensions. He is powdered sugar and honey. If the 



an enthusiastic disciple of apiculture, journey is made in cold weather the 



and from him were gained many workers will huddle about the queen 



points of interest concerning the to keep her warm. Mr. Pratt breeds 



breeding of these little fellows. from a race of bees which is compar- 



Mr. Pratt winters about 40 hives, atively new to this country and known 



and in the summer increases to about as the Carniolan race, which comes 



125, all for queen rearing. The av- from the province of Carniola, Aus- 



erage price for a queen bee is $1 and tria. They come from a valley which 



