THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 



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No yellow bands on her progeny. 

 Nothing but those of pure Carniolan 

 type. The latter was reared by Mr. 

 Henry Alley of Wenham, Mass., from 

 his noted $100 Italian queen. She is 

 a very fine queen, and also shows 

 well marked workers, yet we had 

 those in our apiary before her that 

 produced bees of a deeper golden hue 

 even than hers. As before stated, 

 these two colonies being so equally 

 populated with worker bees, we at 

 once decided to give them a trial test 

 of their houey gathering qualities. 

 The season however proved very un- 

 favorable for such a test, there being 

 scarcely any honey in the blossoms — 

 only that which was gathered from 

 the forest trees. This was exceed- 

 ingly dark and undesirable for family 

 use, owing to the fact that the source 

 from which it came being the work- 

 ings of insects on the forest leaves. 



Well, as the season advanced the 

 combs began filling up with what 

 some of our neighbor apiarists called 

 "bug juice." We got out our big 

 honey extractor, which we had made 

 to order some years ago, with baskets 

 large enough to receive any sized 

 frame in use, and store room enough 

 below the basket for at least 50 pounds 

 of honey. On the first occasion we 

 took from the Carniolan colony twenty 

 pounds and some ounces, and from 

 the Italians something over fifteen 

 pounds, weighing the full combs in 

 each case as we took them from the 

 hives, then weighing again after ex- 

 tracting. Later in the season we agian 

 took from the former nearly thir- 

 ty pounds and from the latter not 

 quite twenty-five pounds, making a 

 sura total of almost fifty pounds for 

 the Carniolans and a little less than 



thirty-five pounds for the Italians, 

 with plenty of honey left in the hives 

 for their winter stores. Thus the 

 reader will observe that the result of 

 our test was about one-third more 

 honey in favor of the Carniolans. 



This season the Carniolans bred up 

 so much faster than the Italians that 

 they became crowded for room sooner 

 thau we expected, and the first thing 

 we khew they turned off a swarm. 

 Then we Italianized all the queen cells 

 in the hive and formed a neuclei. 



The honey crop this season in this 

 locality will probably average about 

 one-third of a crop, judging by the 

 returns from our own apiary. The fall 

 bloom, however, is jnst now begin- 

 ning. 



Davenport, la., Aug. 24, 1892. 



The W. T. Falconer M'f'g Co., 

 Gentlemen : — I had one more of your 

 thin- wall hives this summer than I 

 needed, and as I was an exhibitor at 

 the Montgomery County Agricultural 

 Society Fair, and as there was a pre- 

 mium offered for the best general pur- 

 pose bee-hive, I exhibited the thin- 

 wall hive, and I captured the first 

 prize over Root's Dovetailed with 

 ease. If I had been an agent I could 

 have taken a great many orders. 

 Yours, &c, 



Harshman, 0. S. C. Bates. 



[We are glad to know that the thin- 

 wall hive is so well regarded in your 

 locality. We have had a great many 

 good reports from it and believe that 

 with the outside winter case it is one of 

 the best summer and winter hives 

 made. — Ed.] 



