THE AMERICAN APIGULTURIST. 



287 



For the American ApiculUirist. 



A GOOD QUEEN AND A 

 GOOD REPORT. 



J. W. Tefft. 



I have no reason to complain of 

 this season's work, as my bees 

 have done well. 



The queen you sent me in Aug- 

 ust, 1886, was introduced success- 

 full}^ but to my disappointment 

 she did not la}^ an egg. I wintered 

 her and they came through with 

 only about a pint of bees, all old 

 bees probabl3\ 



I should have lost her had I not 

 gone to a neighbor and purchased 

 a pound of young black bees. I 

 put them on two frames, tucked 

 them up warm and fed them with a 

 little honey and water. To mj^ 

 surprise and delight she commenced 

 to lay and kept it up until she 

 filled twelve frames full of eggs. 

 I never saw but one queen so pro- 

 lific before. I have taken away 

 from her six frames of honey and 

 hatching brood and sixty-six one- 

 pound sections of as beautiful 

 honey as I ever saw, and expect to 

 take twelve more pounds of golden 

 rod hone}', as twelve more sections 

 are almost finished. 



I shall winter them on eight 

 frames ; four of them will be solid 

 honey in frames 10 x 15 inches; 

 the honey in the four frames 

 weighs twenty-eight and one-half 

 pounds ; the other four frames may 

 contain three pounds of honey 

 each. The hive is full of bees and 

 I am well pleased. 



Collamer, N. Y. 



[The bees could not rear brood until tbe 

 yoimtr black bees were iiddcd to llie colony, 

 ;is ihe bees that had surviveil the winter were 

 too old to nurse the larva. Your report 

 plea&es us very niiicli. — Manuger Api.] 



For the American ApicuUurist. 



ANOTHER GOOD REPORT. 



Selden B. Hitchcock. 



The queen ordered of yon was 

 received !Sept. 1 all right ; was suc- 

 cessfull}' introduced by the three 

 day plan given in the Api. I could 

 not well get along witliout your 

 valuable paper. The plan for in- 

 troducing queens is well worth the 

 price of subscri|)tion. I have this 

 season introduced several virgin 

 queens by the above plan, thus pre- 

 venting after swarming. 



My report for this season is as 

 follows : Took twelve colonies fi'om 

 the cellar after a confinement of 

 170 days, increased to nineteen; 

 amount of comb honey taken, 815 

 lbs., mostly in one-pound sections. 

 I run for comb honey ; do not ex- 

 tract any. 



Bees in general have done very 

 poorly in this section ; many bee- 

 keepers are getting no surplus. A 

 neighbor, a half mile away, with 

 fourteen colonies, gets about sixty 

 pounds surplus. My best colony 

 made 102 pounds honey liesides 

 finishing one set of twenty-eight 

 sections that had been commenced. 



Westjield, Vt. 



"American Bee Journal." 



MARKET REPORTS OF 

 HONE Y. 



Eugene Secor. 



I have heretofore been in favor 

 of the market quotations in our 

 bee-periodicals ; and when the storm 

 of indignation gathered about the 

 heads of commission men last win- 

 ter, I felt inclined to avert it, think- 

 ing, or wanting to think, that they 

 were doing the very best that they 



