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produces all three-banded workers, she 

 is found to be purely mated, but it is 

 sometimes found that such a queen will 

 not produce a single queen that shows 

 pure stock. 



The last exception is one of most vital 

 importance to beginners in bee-culture, 

 and I sometimes think that the rule as 

 to a tested queen should be changed so 

 as to avoid mistakes on this line. As a 

 matter of fact, a pure queen, purely 

 mated, will invariably produce pure 

 queens, and when the writer tinds a 

 queen that will not produce pure queens, 

 he puts it down that she is either impure 

 herself, or that she was mated by an 

 impure drone. This being true, it fol- 

 lows that the first quality of a tested 

 queen should be the production of pure 

 queens, instead of three-banded workers. 

 No possible harm could result from this 

 rule, just as many queens would be sold, 

 and in that case every tested queen, as 

 far as stock is concerned, would do for 

 a breeder, and would sell for a good 

 price. 



Much harm, in my opinion, has re- 

 sulted to beginners in not knowing that 

 some queens would produce all three- 

 banded workers, and would not produce 

 a queen that was fit to rear queens 

 from. I had, in the beginning, a sad 

 experience along this line, and know of 

 others who had the same, and I now 

 know whereof I speak. 



Sneedville, Tenn. 



Further Account of a China- 

 man's Bee-Keeping. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY WUNG LUNG. 



Lassa tlime I talkee about ray sugar- 

 fly, my plartner, Mlister Mlufley, and 

 lot of other things. Thissa tlime me 

 tell you 'bout my cousin, and how I cure 

 him of lumatism ; I also tell how to sell 

 sugar-fly sugar, and make heap money. 



You sabbe lassa tlime me heap ABC 

 scholar; now me full-fledged sugar-fly 

 keeper. Mr. Mulphley call me " gladu- 

 late in skule of aplikultural sclience." 

 I no sabbe him ; but guess he mean I 

 know heap lot alaout sugar-fly. 



Now, you sabbe I catch sugar-fly two, 

 tlee year ago. Flirst year I no make 

 money off him ; nexa year mo now tell 

 you what me do. July thissa year I 

 have tlen hives ; me extlact one ton 

 sugar. Sugar-man in Slan Flancisclio 

 say he give me slix clentee one pound 

 for him. M(i talkee him too inuchee 



cheapee. Me wantee eight clentee. No 

 sellee in Slan Flancisclio ; me go home 

 and makee sugar-fly sugar into yepyamsa 

 — him heep nicee ; Chinaman heep 

 likee. 



Me go Chinatown and see my cousin — 

 him big mlerchant — and sell him yep- 

 yamsa 15 clentee one pound. One pound 

 sugar-fly sugar make tlee pounds yep- 

 yamsa, and cost me flour clentee. Me 

 do belly well not sell sugar for slix 

 clentee. Me make 41 clentee one pound 

 by making him into yepyamsa. Nlext 

 year me try and make flour tons of yep- 

 yamsa. Pretty soon me belly lich and 

 go black to China to see my wiffo. 



Me tlink Mr. Lambler tlink me own 

 an intlerest in that bleet sugar flactlory 

 near where him lives. He might likee 

 to know how to make yepyamsa ; he 

 will have to wait a long tlime, for me 

 don't plopose to give the slecret away. 

 If me flind him flooling 'bout here he 

 will flind himself in a worse whirlwind 

 than him got Ploflessor Clook and Mr. 

 Hutchlinslon into. 



At the end of my slecond year, me had 

 27 swarms in heep nice bloxes. Mr. 

 Mlurfley call him in " pig-tail blox," 

 wha' for. me no sabbe. Nexa year me 

 try to have 100 hives ; then me make 

 heep yepyamsa. Mr. Mlurfley say belly 

 good for me Mr. Cleveland get into of- 

 flice, for him big Mogul Cleveland won't 

 have to protect my new Amelican in- 

 flant indlustry. 



Me lookee bee-blook to see what to 

 do with extlactor, when not used for 

 honey-fly sugar, but could not flind any- 

 thing in him. Me tell you what do. Me 

 loan him to Jim Lee to make him wash- 

 ing nice and clean and dry. Extlactor 

 heep fine to dry clothes in. Take washee 

 out of tub water and tlow him into ex- 

 tlactor, turn handle, and pletty soon 

 washee belly dry — water all fly from 

 washee. Me tlink before long all 

 Chinese wash-house have extlactor to 

 dry washee. Me wish extlactor had 

 platent on him, for me would become 

 him agent, and sell heep lot to Chinese 

 wash-house. 



Me Slunday-school teacher talkee me 

 one day that sugar-fly-bite heep good for 

 lumatism. Slam Lee long tlime hap die 

 in Slan Flanclisco with him 'tlism; so 

 me catch one dozlen sugar-flies, put him 

 in blottle, and take him to Slam Lee. 

 Leo belly stliflf, he no move 'blout for 

 tlen year — him allee samee him hap die. 

 When me go Slam Lee's house him 

 sleep belly sound. Me tell young Sling 

 (him Slam Lee's cousin) me make Lee 

 heep well belly much quick — him walk 

 belly fast, alloc samee him no sick. 



