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THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



Editor Am. Bee-Keeper, Dear 

 Sir : Please grant me the privilege 

 of making a few statements which are 

 jnst as positive and less misleading 

 than some of the statements and con- 

 clusions made by Mr. Alley in his 

 article in the July number of the Bee- 

 Keeper. First, he says that he select- 

 ed the lightest colored queens and 

 expected very white bees. Now, if he 

 has bred Carniolan queens eight years 

 and has taken observations, he should 

 know that those queens had the most 

 of the yellow blood in them and he 

 should not have been so surprised at 

 the results. Again, the indistinct 

 yellow" bands in more or less of the 

 workers that Andrews & Lockhart 

 seDt him were all in his fertile imag- 

 ination. I selected that colony of 

 bees for Mr. Alley personally and 

 know -that they were evenly marked 

 and no such conclusions could have 

 been arrived at. Again, he says there 

 is not a dealer in dark Carniolans 

 who can produce a queen whose 

 worker progeny are more or less 

 " striped." If he means in his state- 

 ments yellow hands, it is misleading, 

 and I can prove this to any ones satis- 

 faction who will come to my apiary 

 and examine I very much regret 

 having to make these statements, 

 some of them at least, and have no 

 time To continue the controversy, but 

 the readers of the American Bee- 

 Keeper are many and should not be 

 mislead. Your.-, &c, 



John Andrew-. 

 Pattens Mills, N,Y..July 23, 1891. 



W.T. Falconer Mfg Co., Gentle- 

 men : Although not personally ac- 

 quainted with the members of your 

 firm, still I claim acquaintance from 

 our pleasant dealings while acting as 

 manager of the Rhode Island Bee- 

 Keeper's Supply Co., of Providence, 

 which position I gave up one year ago 

 to-day and started for the far away 

 and much talked of Salt LakeValiey, 

 Utah, Since that date I understand 

 that you have been publishing a bee 

 journal, and if you prove to be as 

 good in the editorial chair as you are 

 at the head of your fine supply estab- 

 lishment it will prove a sm 

 Anything 1 can contribute towards 

 helping it along I will do gladly. 



I have found in Utah everything 

 I had anticipated, and to the bee-man 

 it is everything one could wish for. 

 A letter from a friend in Providence 

 closes thus: "Bee- doing poorly; 

 honey crop short." I smiled as I 

 thought of how we used to watch and 

 wait for the blooming of this and that 

 honey plant, and then stand in fear 

 of a rain storm that would spoil every- 

 thing. That is why in Utah every- 

 thing is changed. No rain to bother 

 us and still no end to the honey crop, 

 from early spring until the cold 

 weather late in October. 



I anticipate making a display of 



bee-keeper's supplies at the fair in 



Salt Lake City ; if so will want to 

 order some goods from you. 



Please >end me copy of magazine 

 and catalogue. 



Yours truly, 



Chas. W. Frost. 

 Ogden, Utah, Aug. 2, 1891. 



