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It uifitters not by vvlmt method one 

 rears queens ; there will lie more <»r 

 less of tliera in the lot that should be 

 destroyed. The dealei- who makes it 

 a practieo to rear and ship only the 

 finest formed, largest and most |irom- 

 ising queens will alvva3's have all the 

 orders he can fill. 



We also make it a practice, when 

 it is possible to do so, to rear a good 

 many more queens than we can use. 

 The largest and best queens are se- 

 lected and placed in nuclei and when 

 fertilized are sent to our customers. 



A few more testimonials. 

 I came near forgetting about the 

 testimonials which I intended to insert 

 here. We have a lew more good ones. 

 Ilei'e is one of them. 



Mfarshjield, Mo., June 6, 1890. 

 Mil. llENRY Alley: 



DKAii Sir:— I have been trying for the iiicpst 

 coloied (|iu;ens thai can be Ibuiid. I have tried 

 several dealers and the best I have seen came 

 from your apiary. 



M.L. MCNABB, P. INI. 



Nothing bad in the aljove. Our 

 friend says no more in favor of our 

 queens than hundreds of other cus- 

 tomers have the last thirty years. 



Adoi)t the best methods for reai- 

 ing queens and good queens will be 

 the result. We have lel't in our apiary 

 about a dozen colonies of the choicest 

 and handsomest Italian bees that can 

 be found in the United States. It 

 is pretty hard to decide which of these 

 colonies has the handsomest bees. 

 We have tested all of the queens in 

 these colonies to see which produces 

 the finest queens. Can see no dif- 

 ference in them. All i)roduce large 

 golden queens, and as line in all i-e- 

 spects as those reared from 



Our hundred-dollar queen. 



As this issue of the Apicdltuuist 

 will be an extra large one and will be 

 read by hundreds of beekeepers who 

 never before savy- a co^iy of our paper, 

 and, perhai)s, never heard about the 

 best Italian bees that we think can be 

 found in the world, perhaps we may 

 be excused for giving another brief 



description of this wonderful queen 

 and her colony. 



••There is a colony working well ;" 

 so says everybody who comes into our 

 a[)iarv. "Yes," we say, "that is our 

 hundred dollar queen." "Would you 

 like to see what a gentle colony of 

 bees they are?" We then proceed to 

 open the hive without bee-veil, smoke 

 or rubber gloves. Nor does the 

 stranger who stands looking on need 

 any protection. The hive is 0})ene(l, 

 combs removed, and although there is 

 a half bushel of bees in the colony not 

 one leaves the combs or takes wing. 

 We can open the hive twenty times a 

 da}' with the same result. Now this 

 colony is very strong, none stronger in 

 the apiary ; bees unusually gentle and 

 the best workers and honey gatherers 

 we ever had in our apiary. Her 

 worker progeny are large, and very 

 handsome. The queens are of a rich 

 orange color. The drones are all large, 

 active, and handsomely marked. 



About seven hundred queens have 

 been reared from this queen the })res- 

 ent year and about three thousand will 

 be reared before September 1 . When 

 one has a queen that combines all the 

 desirable points that bees should pos- 

 sess she is indeed a prize. We have 

 them in this $100 queen, viz. : — pu- 

 rity, beauty, gentle disposition, pro- 

 lificncss of queens, and excellent, yes, 

 the best' of honey foragers. 



We will say to our new readers that 

 we mail a daughter of this queen to 

 each of the subscribers of this paper 

 on receipt of seventy-five cents. Pu- 

 rity and safe arrival by mail guaran- 

 teed of all queens sent out from the 

 Bay State queen-rearing apiai'ies. 



One more puff for the queens reared in the 

 Bay State Apiary. 



Sylvan Jlearh, N. Y.. June 0, 1890. 

 Mr. Alley :— Your Ueelceepeis' Directory is 

 a treasure. Iliave had (lueeiis from dealers from 

 the Gull' to the Lakes, l)iit the best I ever had 

 are ol' your rearinjr. 



P. W. Leete. 



Correct, my friend, the Directory 

 is a treasure. It contains as much 

 information on bees and bee culture as 



