THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



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placed in the cage. In making 

 this candy Mr. Alley (who is having 

 most excellent success this season 

 with shipping his queens safe) uses 

 part granulated and part powdered 

 sugar with the honey. 



We deeply regret being obliged 

 to chronicle the death of the New 

 England Apiarian. 



Its editor from all that we can 

 learn of him was a fine young man 

 and one who hoped to benefit his 

 brother beekeepers but failed to 

 receive their support. This was 

 no discredit to him : he did his part 

 nobly and well. 



It may do for some to shout in 

 triumph over such downfalls, but 

 just as sure as justice and right 

 ever prevail just so sure " their 

 day" will come. The beekeepers 

 are not all '•'■ dupes " and " brain- 

 less " beings, to be led about at 

 the will of those who care to make 

 dollars out of them. Those who 

 recognize the necessit}^ and demand 

 for an independent bee journal are 

 among the most prominent, 

 thoughtful, noble and successful 

 apiarists in America ; and, when 

 they speak, those who have ma- 

 ligned and misrepresented their 

 characters and lives will hang their 

 heads in shame. 



Time will tell. 



We glean the following notes 

 from a letter from Palestine written 

 b}' Mr. David Howard, who has 

 been purchasing queens in the Holy 

 Land and who is now on his wa}^ 

 to this countrjf with 200 Holy Land 

 queens. 



" Regarding the Holy Land 

 queens, I shall get them from some 

 German beekeepers who have al- 

 ready been posted on the markings 

 of the Holy Land bees and who are 

 accustomed to rearing queens for 

 the Gei'man and English market and 

 understand their business ; they 

 having purchased their bees with 

 the express idea of rearing queens. 



I have examined their bees and 

 find that they have tlie markings 

 which you [Mr. Alley] sa^^ shoutd 

 characterize them. My attention 

 was first called to these marTxings as 

 being the status ideal of Holy Land 

 bees. 



In buying, they were careful to 

 reject all that did not fill the bill. 

 One of the brothers to whom I 

 have referred has been running an 

 apiary at or near Bethlehem and 

 the brothers have made up their 

 apiaries mostlj^ since winter and 

 now have nearly one hundred colo- 

 nies. I find that bees are plentiful 

 near Solomon's Pool : there are 

 about 400 colonies. One small vil- 

 lage near JaflTa has one hundred 

 colonies. 



In handling these bees I find 

 them exceedingly gentle ; more so, 

 in fact, than any others that I ever 

 handled and I have handled thous- 

 ands of colonies. I am exceedingly 

 delighted with Holy Land bees. 



All the queens that I have seen 

 of this race have quite diff'erent 

 markings from any others with 

 which I am acquainted. My e3^e- 

 sight is not very good, but I should 

 say that they are a deep red, al- 

 most brown, and are very uniform 

 in their markings with not a par- 

 ticle of variation. After I have 

 become better acquainted with 

 them, I may find a greater variation 

 in the markings but they are exceed- 

 mg\y handsome an}' way. 



I went to-day (April 24) to see 

 the German apiarists and find them 

 completely overrun with honey and 

 extracting all the time. I saw 

 them extracting from combs which 

 were extracted from only four days 

 ago and some of the honey was 

 capped over,- one of the brothers 

 told me that their bees were worth 

 one hundred dollars a day to them. 

 I expect soon to start for home." 



The delay in the issue of the 

 present number of the Journal has 



