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Funics did under tlie same conditions? 

 Do you consider the test you made of 

 theirdispositions a fair or a proper one? 

 Do you recommend your readers to 

 handle l)ees in that way? 



Mr. Ernest Root thinks I am press- 

 ing the claims of tlie Pimics most too 

 hard. I believe the Roots are telling 

 tlie truth when giving their experiences 

 with these bees. On the other hand, I 

 am telling nothing but the truth when 

 I give my experience. At any rate, the 

 reader will soon get my side of the 

 question thoroughly substantiated. 



Friend Root has a letter in his pos- 

 session from a man in California that 

 will open his eyes. The same will ap- 

 pear in Sept. Api. It gives a glowing 

 account of the Punic bees. 



There are about seven hundred Punic 

 queens scattered over the country. Of 

 these number of queens about a dozen 

 (will say a dozen though I don't know 

 that there are half as many) that have 

 proved not just as expected. What is 

 there remarkable in that ? It is a better 

 record than can be given of any other 

 race. The Funics will come to the front. 

 Mark my words and stick a pin in here. 



I do not propose to give the Punics 

 a bad name because T. W. Cowan, D. 

 A. Jones, and A. I. Root have. I think 

 my opinion entitled to as much consid- 

 eration as any of those of the 'above- 

 named gentlemen. 



THOMAS WM. COWAX. 



Editor Cowan of the B. B. Journal, 

 travelled all the way from London to Af- 

 rica in search of Funic bees, and reports 

 that he found none. Nothing remark- 

 able in that. Sometime within a year 

 he lookeel over a certain issue of his bee- 

 paper to find an item relating to Punic 

 bees. He failed ( ?) to find it though 

 no one else had the least trouble in do- 

 ing so. None are so blind as those who 

 will not see. 



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