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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 



May 31, 1906 



known by her progeny. Every worker 

 should be marked with 3 bright bands, 

 and the whole of the bee must be of a 

 light shade. Every bee should be alike 

 in color, and every drone should be 

 marked alike — not any dark drones, as 

 such show the impurity. Where a dark 

 drone mates with a queen it begets a 

 mongrel stock, and where the workers 

 take an egg that would be a dark 

 worker and rear a queen from it, the 

 queen is black, and here we get more 

 mongrel blood. 



I say, take a full-blood queen and go 

 on an island where there is no other 

 race of bees, and the queen will breed 

 both workers and drones that would be 

 marked alike, and no person could see 

 any difference. Do stockmen use mon- 

 grel sires to rear blooded stock? No. 

 They take the purest and best of any 

 race of animals for breeding; yet our 

 queen-breeders are breeding with mon- 

 grel drones. 



I have two queens whose drones are 

 bright yellow to the tip of the abdo- 

 men, and I have one whose workers 

 would be called 5-banded. This queen's 

 drones are 1-3 dark. Her mother did 

 not produce one dark drone in a hun- 

 dred, yet they were there. If queen- 

 breeders are not more careful about 

 their drone progeny, soon there will 

 not be any pure stock of bees in Amer- 

 ica. E. Tucker. 



Bergen, N. T., March 3. 



Rose Lawn Queens 



Money for Honey 



We offer to the person producing- the largest 

 nnmber of sections No. 1 comb honey from a 

 colony headed by one of our "Pure Gold" 



Queens before Sept. 15th, 1906 $10.00 cash 



For 2nd largest number of sections.. 7.50 " 

 For 3d " '• " .. 5. 00 ii 

 For 4th " •' " .. 2.50 " 

 Total cash prizes S25.0U 



In addition to this offer we will pay 20 cents 

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We ship 200 " Pure Gold " Queens to a single 

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To reduce my stock 1 will sell No. 1 White 

 Polished Sections at S3 90; No. 2, $3.40-all 

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 Fine Dovetail Hives, S-frame, lK-story, SI. 30; 

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