1895. 



THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



643 



TOUR BEESWAX! 



TTNTIl. FlIKTHEK NOTICE, we will 

 *-^ allow 28 cents per pound for Good Yel- 

 low Beeswax, delivered at our office— in ex- 

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 for Books, or anything that ive offer for sale 

 in the B&E Journal. Or, 26 cts. cash. 



Always ship the Wax by Express, and pre- 

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 Otflces: 1019, 100 State St., 

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 MenXi/yn Vx,,^ American Bee Joun'^A 



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 wood Sections, Bee-Hives, Shipping -Cratee, 

 Frames, Foundation, Smokers, etc. 



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 ordering, or asking about tbe Good» 

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INDIANAPOLIS. IND. 

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'^I'^H.^s^'^l^k^l ITALIAN QUEENS 



Foundation at Wholesale Prices. Hives, 

 suited for the South, or SUPPI.IES, send tor 

 Prlce-Lisl — to 



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In the multitude of counsellors there is 

 safety. — Prov. 11-14. 



The SurTiving; Queen in United 

 Colonies. 



Query 990. — In uniting colonies, both 

 queens being equal and allowed to flght to a 

 finish, is the one that comes out victorious in- 

 jured in the flght ?— J. P. 



Mrs. L. Harrison — Not often. 

 W. R. Graham — I think she is. 

 W. G. Larrabee — I don't know. 

 Eugeno Secor — I think not, as a rule. 

 Chas. Dad3,nt & Son — Yes, sometimes. 

 G. M. Doolittle— Not that I ever no- 

 ticed. 



Rev. E. T. Abbott — She may be, and 

 she may not. 



J. A. Green — Not usually. Doubtless 

 sometimes she is. 



P. H. Elwood — I have never known 

 her to bo injured. 



Prof. A. J. Cook — I have never seen 

 evidence that she was. 



E. Prance— I have had them both 

 killed, but not commonly. 



J. M. Hambau^h — Not usually, though 

 occasionally they are injured. 



B. Taylor — I have never known any 

 facts to prove she was harmed. 



H. D. Cutting— Not always. It is best 

 to remove one of the queens and take no 

 chances. 



Dr. .1. P. H. Brown — Sometimes she 

 is. Hence, never take the risk, but 

 cage the best. 



J. E. Pond — Yes, so far as my own e.\- 

 perience goes. I should not risk it, 

 though, with a valuable queen. 



W. M. Barnum — Occasionally. Look 

 her over ; keep an eye on her " wise sub- 

 jects." They will soon tell you. 



C. H. Dibbern — I can easily see how 

 this might happen, but I have never had 

 a case of this kind come to my knowl- 

 edge. 



Dr. C. C. Miller— I doubt if there will 

 be anything of the kind. But in a case 

 where two queens do fight, I think the 

 victor will come off scot free. 



Mrs. J. N. Heater — Yes, more or less. 

 Possibly both queens will be balled by 

 the bees, and one or both killed. Better 

 cage the best one, and introduce her the 

 same as a strange queen. 



Jas. A. Stone — I would be afraid to 

 risk it, as it seems to me not impossible 

 in some cases both might be killed ; just 

 as we have known of two men killing 

 each other at the same time. 



J. M. Jenkins— Probably not, unless 

 balled or injured in some way by the 

 workers. The combat between queens 

 is short, and is decided in favor of the 

 one that first stings her opponent. 



R. L. Taylor — It seems to be a salutary 

 provision in Nature that two queens in 

 combat cannot both be in a position to 

 sting the other at the same time, and as 

 the reception of a sting instantly ends 

 the fight, only one is ever injured. 



G. W. Demaree — Years ago I learned 

 by experiments carefully conducted, that 

 It is a rare occurrence for both queens to 

 be injured in a mortal combat. But 



there are exceptions to all rules. A 

 neighbor of mine — a perfectly reliable 

 and practical man — told me that he put 

 two laying queens under a glass tumbler 

 and both of them were killed outright in 

 their combat. I prepared a glass-cov- 

 ered cage purposely to test this matter, 

 both with virgin aud laying queens, and 

 have not yet met with a case of death or 

 injury to both combatants. 



Rev. M. Mahin— Sometimes she is. 

 But the greatest danger is in the balling 

 of the queens by the workers. I am of 

 the opinion that when two colonies are 

 united, the queens rarely "fight to a fin- 

 ish." I had one case in which the sur- 

 viving queen had both of her wings 

 gnawed off to the merest stubs, and it 

 was evidently done by hostile workers. 



Allen Pringle— In the first place, if 

 both queens were "equal" the fight 

 would be a "draw," in sporting par- 

 lance. But when they are unequal, and 

 one triumplis, it does not follow that she 

 comes out unscathed. It is but reason- 

 able to suppose that in a " fight to a fin- 

 ish," where the combatants are nearly 

 equal, or even quite different, the sur- 

 vivor is more or less injured. At any 

 rate, that consideration has always been 

 sufficient with me to prevent a " fight to 

 the finish " between queens. 



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 same certainty that it will do you good, that 

 you fell in breathing fresh air, or drinking 

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 is and there will be nothing to regret. , 



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