THE AMERICAN APICULTURIST. 



circumstances, until neaii}- sixteen 

 days and a half after the eg^ could 

 have been laid in a worker cell. 



6. A worker may hatch in nine- 

 teen days and two hours from the 

 egg ; and there ma}- be an interval 

 of precisely four days between the 

 time the first queen and the first 

 worker will hatch. 



7. While most of the worker 

 eggs may hatch in less than twen- 

 ty-one days from the egg, some 

 may not hatch before twenty-two 

 days and three hours. 



8. The eggs of the queen bee 

 do not necessarily hatch at precise 

 intervals from the time they were 

 laid, any moi'e than all the eggs 

 placed at once under a hcu hatch 

 simultaneously. 



July 27, 1883. To-day a pure 

 black queen was brought to me. 

 She came with a swarm into the 

 upiar}' of a friend — probabl}^ fioin 

 the woods. How many associa- 

 tions the sight of her revived ! For 

 more than fifteen years I have not 

 seen a black queen and was sur- 

 prised to learn that a single pure 

 one of this race could be found in 

 this vicinity. Her opportune ap- 

 pearance and my restored health 

 may enable me to repeat my ex- 

 periments with black bees, and if 

 I am successful, your readers shall 

 have the results. 



Oxford, Butler Co., Ohio, 

 July 27, 1.S83. 



THE BA Y S TA TE A PI A R Y. 



By S. M. Locke. 



The well known Bay State Api- 

 ary at the home of the veteran 

 queen-dealer of the United States, 

 Plenr}' Alley, whose name has be- 

 come a household word wherever 

 practical beekeeping is known, — 

 the apiary from which has ema- 

 nated the only complete scientific 

 and practical method extant of 

 rearing queen bees, is quietly and 

 peacefully nestled in one of the 

 most beautiful and picturesque 

 towns of the old historic Bay State, 

 almost Ijeneath the shadow of old 

 Bunker Hill, about twenty-two 

 miles from Boston. 



It is here that Mr. Alley has 

 spent a busy life of more than 

 twent^'-five years devoted to his 

 cherished and beloved pursuit, and 

 established his method of queen- 

 rearing as given in the "Bee- 

 keeper's Handy Book." Here, in 

 company with Mr. Alley, I have 

 spent some of the most pleasant 

 and profitable moments of my life 

 in searching out some of the rich 

 treasures of Nature's vast store- 

 house. 



It gives me pleasure to be able 

 to present the readers of the Api- 

 culturist with so good a likeness 

 of Mr. Alley and his apiary. 



The latter represents only a por- 

 tion of his home queen-breeding 

 yard, with his house in the back- 

 ground, a few full colonies in 

 Laugstroth hives, and the nucleus 

 hives with the cone-feeders ad- 



