THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 53 



of the clothing', are not prismatic colors, and the resulting- mixture 

 would be a sort of a no-color gray. If the colors were pure, as in 

 the prismatic, we would have a white as pure as sunlight. 



I do not know what our friend Jefifries means by brightening 

 the yellow of Italian bees with black, or black blood, for so far as 

 we know the Italian bee has no black admixture. That is, it is not 

 a h3^brid. any more than is the Cyprian, Caucassian or Banat. I 

 do not have to defer to Mr. Jefifries' longer experience in bee- 

 keeping, for I quote men who were studying bees before he and I 

 were born. His assertion that "there is not a strain of Golden, or 

 Yellow, or four or five-lianded bees on this earth that have not 

 got black blood in them," is not worth noticing, save for the con- 

 sideration that some beginner may be led astray by it. The Italian 

 queens are, it is true, variable, and by long study we might find 

 something to indicate their right, but there is no evidence that the 

 German bee was the progenitor of the Italian. 



To sooth ]\Ir. Jefifries' outraged feelings, I will say : Breed a 

 pure Black queen — and by Black I mean German — to a pure Italian 

 drone, then breed that half-blood, or half-breed queen, which it is, 

 to other pure Black drones, and in four, five, ten, twenty or a 

 hundred generations the Italian blood will be eliminated. Substi- 

 tute Cyprian drones, and they will all ultimately by Cyprians. If 

 we use Caucasian drones, we will have, in time. Caucasian bees, but 

 we cannot breed them according to the ]\Iendelian law. 



Creating a Demand for Our Products. 



ADVOCATES ADVERTISING— HONEY A LUXURY— ADVERTISI NG AT 



FAIRS— ADULTERATION FEARED BY THE PUBLIC 



—BEE-KEEPERS' ASSOCIATION. 



By J. M. BUCHANAN, Franklin, Tenn. 



[The bee men should by all means cultivate the local trade to the utmost. 

 whether they sell through an association or commission dealer. The two methods 

 must both be followed for the most extended results. Mr. Buchanan mentions 

 telling how honey is separated from the comb. Why not abolish the term 

 extracted. It conveys a wrong impression to the public. Honey extractors should 

 no longer be called by the name — they should be Honey Separators. Separated 

 honey should supplant the term extracted honey. This is a move for the man- 

 ufacturers, journals, and all the bee-keepers. It is more important than w e 

 realize.] 



^^r%E, as bee-keepers and producers of one of the world's best 

 ^^y/ commodities, do not live up to our opportunities. Wq often 

 complain of the low prices and poor demand for honey, when 

 in most instances, at least, it is our own fault. I have no hesitancy 

 in saying that if the proper methods were used in the advertising 

 and sale of honey, that is, the methods generally adopted by the 



