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,Hl prosperous association is to my watched the result. All were snpplitKl 

 nn,l an evidence of the enthusiasm with the same kind of food, some 

 (. labored to awaken in a Ions neslect- wonld become dormant in a short 

 1 indnsti-y. His pen enriched the time while othws would live several 

 ■I r-i of the auricultural press in days. 



,mr State in ante bee-journal days, I know no better term than to say 

 11(1 led manv a fji-opins' noA-ice from the latter possessed more vigor, or 

 irkness into light. Mav the names power of endurance, and as the queen, 

 f rangc^troth and Quinby never be so would be her worker progeny, 

 r"otten while a flower blooms and easily chilled in summer or winter 



bee's wing cuts the summer air in or possessing the power of resisting 

 lis fair land of ours. unfavorable surroundings. 



In the consideration of our subject 2. Beauty. Men love the beautiful 

 e shall go bevond the mere mechani- wherever seen. "Beautiful women, 

 al part of queen-rearing, for I ad- beautiful landscapes, beautiful homes, 

 i-ess a convention of bee masters, beautiful fiower-s. beautiful honey, 

 ot noAiccs. and first consider the beautiful bees. Some men may pro- 

 biect to be attained. TTiat the fess a contempt for the beautiful, but 

 ueen bee is the "mainspring" of the we don't believe their professions, and 

 Ive there will probablv be none to if forced to take thein at their word 

 ues'tion and to produce her ladyship we soiTOwfully admit them to be 

 1 the way that shall develop the moral monsters. But we hope there 

 ighest excellence, such as vigor, are none such in onr fraternity. The 

 eauty longevit:\', gentleness, etc., flimsy as,sertion of some, that we 

 hould be the aim" of everv bee-keeper, -sacrifice productive Industry as the 

 rhether he rears queens bevond the price of beauty In our bees is not 

 rants of his own colonies or not. sustained by analogy, or unprejudiced 

 ^ 1.^1- ,-,.fr. +1-.*^ inwq that experience. To possess the highest 

 o Vi-n"th:% oduc«on of'^an mal Me tn- of stock of any kind Is a -source 

 .e find that one law ohtains, from of pleasure. To have our customers 

 Li low through all the grades of «ay: "Tlie queen you sent me is the 

 wer a iina l^fe! viz: "The animal handsomest one I ever saw' is cer- 

 fte? his kind." t^^i"!-^' l'l^^^«=^"t to say the least. 



While climate, food and surronnd- 3. Longevitj\ It is a fact that some 

 iigs have their influence, man is still queens die after having laid eggs but 

 aan, whether barbarons or enlight- a few weeks, while others live and 

 ned", and his domestic animals when prosper four or five years. All life 

 ired" with any special peculiarity or insurance companies are particular 

 rait in view, have developed the to inquire as to thie longevity of the 

 raits desired. While there are many parents of the applicant for a policy 

 lesirable traits in our present strain of insurance claiming to calculate the 

 if Italian bees that shonld be fostered risk Avith mnch certainty. I shall 

 n breeding, I have named but four, assume that the same rule holds good 

 leeming that further enumeration in the breeding of bees, and that a 

 vould make our essay undesirably long-lived queen will be more likely 

 ono;_ to produce long-lived queens and 



The first trait, vigor, strength, Avorkers than one that lived to be only 

 tower of endurance. As bee-keepers one year old. It Mill readily be seen 

 ve do not want all onr hopes blasted that if we can add but one week to 

 >y the occurrence of unusually severe the average life of the w-orking-foree 

 vinters. which are liable to occur in of Uie hive, we have added largely 

 >ur variable climate. That one colony to the profits of the apiary. A week 

 >f bees lives and another by its side- of addetl life to the worker bees would 

 lies under preciselv the same con- be a week of active outdoor hibor. 

 litions is evidence of different powers To rear bees that die off quickly 

 )f endurance. (comparatively) is a profitless pur- 



I have different times exposed a suit, 

 lumber of laying queens, confined I deem it a very great mistake to 

 without workers, in cages, to a low suppose that the queen that can lay 

 ■emperature for be&s singly, and the greatest amonnt of eggs m a 



