THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST. 



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queen you will find a difference in 

 size in favor of the egg laid for a 

 queen. 



I wonder how many of our queen 

 breeders have tried to raise a worker 

 bee from an egg laid in a queen cell. 

 I don't believe a genuine worker bee 

 can be raised from such an egg, and 

 vice versa, I don't believe that the 

 best queens can be raised from 

 worker eggs. We should aim so far 

 as possible to stock our yards with 

 queens reared under the swarming, 

 or the superseding impulse, if we 

 may be allowed the expression. Who 

 ever knew a superseding queen to 

 be a poor one ? 



My experience would further go 

 to show that queens reared from very 

 young or very old mothers were not 

 so vigorous, as a rule, as those bred 

 from a two-year old queen mother. 



Sd much for the egg and with the 

 editor's permission we will speak of 

 the after treatment in another article. 

 Thorn Bin, N. V. 



For the American ApicuUurist. 



''WHAT IS ITr 



Will iM. Kellogg. 



By my own mistake or poor writ- 

 ing or mistake of "typo," in Feb. 

 "Api," page 31,1 was made to say 

 that "honey dew" came in the lat- 

 ter part of Aug. and fore part of 

 Sept. I never knew of an}' hone}' 

 dew in Sept., and the reading of 

 ray article shows that we get it in 

 July, first, after C^xj weather has 

 stopped the flow from white clover. 

 I see that the editor and others 

 are calling the "what is it" a trne 

 hone}' from a shrub. That won't 

 apply here, for we have an open, 

 level, prairie country and no such 

 flowering shrub grows here. This 

 is the first season that we ever got 

 any of it here, but it is common in 

 the apiaries along the river where 

 I kept bees for four j^ears. 



Oneida, III. 



[Printers follow copy. We can conect 

 manuscript in some respects, but wlien a wri- 

 ter says Sept. and means Aus:ust we cannot 

 say wliicli is correct. We respectl'ully request 

 all' our correspondents to be more carelul with 

 their copy.] 



For the. American ApicuUurist. 



APICULTURE IN CALI- 

 FORNIA. 



A. Norton. 



(Contiaued from page 31.) 

 HIVES. 



I believe that the most extensive 

 producer of extracted honey in Amer- 

 ica and, possibly in the world, is or 

 has been Mr. R. Wilkin of San Bu- 

 enaventura, Cal., another apiarist of 

 long and thorough practice. He not 

 only uses and prefers the regular 

 Langstroth, but has experimented 

 somewhat with the closed-end Quin- 

 by before settling his preference. 

 Mr. W. has run as many as 1,200 to 

 1,500 colonies at a time and has pro- 

 duced 50 tons of extracted honey 

 in a season. I have never seen a 

 discussion of the merits of the hives 

 (L. and Q.) as compared with each 

 other. If such a discussion could be 

 had free from the animosities and 

 personalities that I have seen in other 

 journals over the size and shape of 

 frames, I should like to see it carried 

 on in the "iVpi." Each of us can 

 not practise with every kind of hive-, 

 but we can profit from the experi- 

 ence of those who have used each 

 his kind. 



I have been much interested of 

 late by accounts of three styles of 

 invertible hives of recent invention. 

 Two of these are patented and one is 

 is not. 



As they have not yet been used in 

 California, they may not be ai)pro- 

 ])riate to the main topic of this ar- 

 ticle ; but brief mention of them is 

 not wholly foreign to the subject of 

 hives. 



I have not seen any of them. My 



