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THE AMEEICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



[Feb., 



HURRAH FOR GALLUP ! 



Old hats and new, give them a full vigorous 

 swing and "three cheers,'' and hurrah again ! 



y\'hy, old fellow, what makes you so modest? 

 Do you really mean to say that you have taken 

 SIX HUNDRED (600) PdUNDS of lioney from one 

 iiive in one season, and been so quiet about it? 

 Why we are going to make such a fuss, that you 

 can hear us from "Maine to Mexico," when we 

 beat it, hext summer. 



You don't tell us half enough about it. You 

 gave them combs, you say ; but really, now, did 

 you give them no irood or young bees, as Mr. 

 Hazen does ? We have no fears that we can pro- 

 duce a ton, if that course be allowed. 



We would like to state it tiius— How many 

 pounds of surplus honey can the progeny of one 

 queen produce in a season ? 



One matter we almost forgot. Mr. Hazen 

 speaks of bees starving on account of overstock- 

 ing. Bless his heart, has no one ever told him 

 that we now give our bees their winter sup- 

 plies, as a farmer provides for his cattle and 

 sheep ; only we simjjly take about as miich 

 trouble to do it as would require to stack up the 

 quantity of hay that an animal would need over 

 winter, and turn them in the lot to keep them- 

 selves. Does he consider feeding "violence" 

 too ? After the several hundred pounds his bees 

 have given him, does he let them starve? Does 

 the "society for the prevention of cruelty to 

 animals" not include insects among the objects 

 of their care ? If they do, oh, my ! what a task 

 they will have ! 



Mr. Editor, do we find too much fault? Some- 

 how we fear our pen runs too much that way ; 

 and for that reason, in fact, we decided not to 

 say a single word about the Cleveland convention, 

 just to check any such lurking disposition. 

 There was much there that we were pleased with, 

 and many jjersous whom we were glad to meet, 

 and things that we would not have missed under 

 scarcely any consideration ; but now look here, 

 old pen, you'll just get yourself flopp^'d away on 

 the shelf, if you don't shut up. It's no business 

 of yours if Mr. King did forget to tell us how he 

 "loved Mr. Langstroth, " as at the Cincinnati 

 convention ; nor why he changed his mind about 

 being secretary, after publishing to the world in 

 his paper, flatly that he wouldn't no hoio* Of 

 course he knew nothing derogatory to Mr. 

 Langstroth's fair name, until he found that that 

 gentleman could neither be bonght nor driven; 

 ■nor did h- then, until he went to Europe with the 

 fixed determination to "hunt up something !" 



Once more, old pen, is it our business to start 

 up. If the mass of beekeepers are satisfied to 

 pass it all without notice or comment, why should 

 we? If King's conventions are painful to us, 

 we won't go to any more— that is, if we could 

 only tell when he was going to jireside.'' 



We are sorry to see Mrs. Tupper's remarks on 

 artificial swarming rejiorted so different from 

 what she did say — especially the latter jDart, 

 which we fear would be rather exhaustive even 



* ^'Nolo episcopari,^^ is the cry of every hypocriti- 

 cal scheemer. [Ed. 



to Iowa been the past season. We presume the 

 reporters did not notice it before it got into 

 print. 



And now, brother beekeepers all, hurrah for 

 the rows of — not jars, but — barrels of honey 

 this time. "Our better half" suggests clean 

 'ichite barrels. Whiskey birrels don't look well. 



Barrels of honey for 1872 ; one from each hive, 

 and from Gallup' s hive two ! 



Novice, as of Old. 



[For the American Bee Junrnal.] 



Notification. 



Mr. Epitor: — Allow us, through the Journal, 

 to inform its readers and save them the trouble 

 of writing to us, that we are out of the Italian 

 bee business and have neither queens nor colo- 

 nies for sale. Six years' experience has satisfied 

 us that we can make a more profitable use of 

 our bees than to use them to breed queens at 

 present prices. Hence we have withdrawn from 

 the business, with the intention of never re- 

 suming it, except perhaps to accommodate a 

 few personal friends with queens, A\hen we 

 have them to spare. 



In this connecti(Ui, we wish to say a few 

 words in relation to our experience in buying 

 queens, and to give 



CREDIT WHERE CREDIT IS DUE. 



We have bought quite a number of Italian 

 queens ; we have bought them both in the 

 United States and in Europe ; we have bought 

 them of several different parties, a-id paid for 

 them prices varying from seven francs to fifteen 

 dollars, each. While, as a general rule, we 

 have been fairly and honorably deixlt with, and j 



good queens have been sent to us — some of them I 



valuable ones ; justice to Mr. Langstroth re- f 

 quires that we should give him the credit of - 

 sending us the best and most valuable queen 

 we have ever received, judging her by her pro- 

 lificness and the uniform high color of her 

 queen, drone, and worker progeny. We have ' 

 bred queens from her to the fifth generation, 

 with the same uniform high color of the workers 

 from each succeeding generation of queens. We 

 consider this a test of purity that is perfectly 

 reliable, no matter how highly colored the 

 queens, drones, and workers are. 



WANTED ! 



In the summer of 1870 we had two queens 

 not more than two-thirds of whose eggs would 

 hatch workers ; the remaining one-third would 

 produce drones, though deposited in worker 

 comb. We are in want of such a queen next 

 year ; and if any reader of the .lournal who has 

 one during the season of 1873, will send her to 

 us by mail, we will reciprocate the favor in any 

 way he may suggest. It is immaterial to us 

 whether the queen is pure Italiaii, black, or 

 mixed. J. H. Townley. 



Parma, Mich , Dec. 20, 1871. 



A queen that has been very prolific, will 

 usually, when superannuation approaches, de- 



