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feed is used out. This candy can be used in small frame feeders in 

 nuclei for mating queens. Feed is always there, and no danger of 

 leaky feeders to cause robbing. This feed has been used to ship 

 fiill colonies of bees in a shipping box without combs with good 

 results, thus doing away with the danger of spreading disease among 

 bees. 



Last spring most of the queen breeders were tied up by the 

 postal department in regard to inspection of apiaries. In May, 1912, 

 I wrote the Third Assistant Postmaster General and asked for per- 

 mission to use the mails if I would send my queens and bees on a 

 candy food made without honey, and I received a favorable reply. 

 The original letter is at our state inspector's office. It gave me per- 

 mission to mail queens and bees providing I would give a sworn 

 statement that the bee-feed used contained no honey. I could fur- 

 nish this statement, and commenced filling orders by mailing out 

 queens last year on this candy feed with fairly good success. I can 

 now see where I can better myself, and see no reason why I cannot 

 this coming season make a candy for queen's cages as nearly per- 

 fect as I have for the hive of bees. 



Have We Not Been Breeding Too Much for Color 

 and Too Little for Honey? 



ADDING STRIPES TO THE ITALIAN BEE— BEAUTIFUL BEES NOT 



ALWAYS GOOD PRODUCERS—AN EXPERIENCE IN 1877— 



"HEN, LET'S SHAKE HANDS." 



By H. L. JEFFREY, Woodbury, Connecticut. 



(Coniiiiucd from Marcli "Rci'icw.") 



About the same time I began to get letters from customers that 

 I had been selling queens to for the past three seasons. All of let- 

 ters mentioned "The queens we got early this season are better bees 

 and make more honey than those you sent us before." These letters 

 I kept to see how many, and how long they would come. This I 

 followed up. In two years more she was superseded and during 

 that time another accidental eye-opener occurred which I'll describe 

 in the future. 



In this fall that was the first season of the using, the daughters 

 of that queen to furnish drones for the mating of her daughters, I 

 had a couple of her daughters raised early in the season that were 

 the only queens furnishing me any drones and to take the place of 

 the older queens I sold. I did raise more from the old queen to fill 

 their places so that I had a slight chance to find out if there would 

 be any deaf, dumb, halt, blind or non-descript specimens very highly 

 valuable as things for the dime museum business in the inbreed mat- 

 ings. And lo ! there cometh none of those scientific valuables of the 



