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THE AMERICAN APICULTUEIST. 



CORRESPONDENCE. 



Editor of American Apicultnrist : 

 Dear Sir, 



I AM much pleased with the 

 article from C. M. Woolver on 

 Artificial Pasturage. 



He has had a very valuable ex- 

 perience with Alsyke clover ; in 

 fact, he gave its value the finest 

 test in a large way of any person I 

 have ever known. What he says 

 of it should have much weight ; 

 particularly, as the experience of 

 all who have tested it in a smaller 

 way agrees so fully with his. 

 While living in AVayne Co., several 

 years ago, A. H. Root tested it and 

 found it of extreme value. 



Tliis season we have three acres 

 of it wliich is very fine. Though the 

 weatlier is extremely bad, yet every 

 day when bees can get out they visit 

 it freely. Neighbors passing by 

 ask wliat it is whicli is so very 

 fragrant. It commences blossom- 

 ing'just as fruit bloom ceases, which 

 makes it extremely desirable from 

 that time until bass wood comes. 



It is extremely valuable. Will 

 ^]Mr. Woolver give us liis experience 

 as regards its value in quality of 

 hav, etc.? 



L. C. Root. 



3fohaivJc, N. Y. 



Editor of Am. Apicultnrist : 



Your request for a short article 

 received, and it will be short, lor 

 it is olf year with us this time. No 

 eight liundred pounds from one col- 

 ony, no, not one liundred pounds ; 

 yet I expect to get tlu-ough with one 

 hundred good, strong colonies, and 

 I intend to have a pure tested Cypri- 

 an queen in every colony by winter. 

 I want no more Italians. They 

 have not the vim about them to do 

 good work in tliis liot, windy 

 l)i'airic land of ours. Give us the 

 Cyprian bee that furnislied the rich 



pabulum that enslaved the affec- 

 tions of the lovely Venus and 

 caused her to forget all rules of 

 propriety and embrace the beard- 

 less Adonis. It is the oldest bee 

 in the world and the best, and our 

 beekeepers owe our friend D. A. 

 Jones a vote of thanks and should 

 give him tlieir hearty support. We 

 have had a very cohl, wet spring 

 followed by eiglit weeks drought, 

 so our bees are very weak. 

 Yours truly, 



B. F. Carroll. 



Dresden, Texas, June 18, 1883. 



[Friend Carroll justl}^ recom- 

 mends the Cyprians as regards 

 their power of endurance, rapidity 

 of flight and honey-gathering qual- 

 ities ; and j^et, we think tiiat he 

 mistakes in supposing them to be 

 the original bee. We have every 

 reason to believe that priority 

 belongs to tlie Holy Lands and 

 that the Cyprians emanated from 

 them. With him we think that the 

 It.alians lack much towards proving 

 the best bees for America and we 

 look for great changes in the devel- 

 opment of neiv strains, within the 

 next few years. Let us hear more 

 about this matter. — Ed,] 



Editor of Am. Apicultnrist : 



" As busy as a bee," and so we 

 all ought to be. May we not learn 

 some practical lessons from these 

 little systematic workers? 



1. "•Gentlemen of leisure" are 

 not popular in any of their com- 

 monwealths, and when too num- 

 erous they become unendurable. 

 Their law against vagranc}^ is 

 capital punishment, and but for 

 l)eing called hardhearted, we would 

 call it a capital law. Even the 

 mild gospel of the New Testament 

 reads, " that if any would not 

 work, neither shall he eat." 



Human drones are a curse to the 

 w^orld, i)arasitcs of our struggling 



