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It is not the idea to boom the consumption 

 of honey, but merely to set forth the facts so 

 that the public may be educated as to its 

 wonderful qualities, so that all classes of con- 

 sumei's will know its value and use a proper 

 proportion. It will then be seen that there 

 is not too much honey, but not enough to go 

 around, and the price will be advanced to a 

 proper level with other products. 



Denver, Colorado. 



trary to the usual rule again, neither queen 

 made any effort to kill the other. That two 

 exceptions to well-established rules occurred 

 in the same hive and at almost the same time 

 is rather rare. It is not uncommon for moth- 

 er and daughter to lay together in the same 

 hive for a time; but in the course of a mcmth 

 the old queen will be missing as a general 

 thing. It is very seldom that two young 

 queens will lay together like this.— Ed.] 



TWO YOUNG QUEENS LAYING IN A HIVE AT 

 ONE TIME. 



I had a little experience yesterday; and, 

 having seen nothing like it in Gleanings, I 

 ask for information. On the 1st of July No. 

 28 had attempted to supersede their queen; 

 but as they were hybrids I killed her and 



fave them a young Italian. Five days later 

 examined them and found the young queen 

 laying nicely. I also noticed several cells 

 about ready to hatch. I left them alone, 

 thinking the bees would destroy them. Yes- 

 terday I was working with them again, and 

 when I took out the comb next to the side of 

 the hive I saw a large young queen, busy 

 laying. I was surjirised, as she looked so 

 much darker than the one I gave them. On 

 lifting out the fourth frame from the side of 

 the hive I discovered the yellow queen. To 

 say I was astonished is putting it mildly. 1 

 again lifted out the first comb, and, catching 

 the darker queen, I put her on the same 

 comb as the other. The bees treated her as 

 if she were their only queen, and the queens 

 were at one time no moi'e than three inches 

 apart, but did not seem to pay any attention 

 to each other. Looking further I found an 

 old cell that had evidently hatched. Now, 

 whether this queen was hatched and mated 

 in this hive containing a young laying queen, 

 or whether she came from some other hive 

 by mistake, and why the bees allowed her to 

 remain, is a mj^stery to me. She, without 

 doubt, was a young queen, as I clip all lay- 

 ing queens. E. D. Anderson. 

 Saspamco, Texas. 



[In the case given, it is plain that the bees 

 were preparing to supersede the old queen, 

 and in doing so must have started several 

 embryo cells supplied with eggs or larvju 

 from this old mother. When you destroyed 

 hei", jmu helped matters along. In the mean 

 time, the queen you introduced l)egan to 

 lay; but, contrary to the usual procedure in 

 such cases, allowed one or more cells to ma- 

 ture, resulting in a young hybrid queen from 

 the old mother which you destroyed. Con- 



SOUTHERN QUEENS; ARE THEY NOT AS SAFE 



FOR NORTHERN BEE-KEEPERS AS THOSE 



BRED IN THE NORTH ? 



Referring to p. 498, Vol. 34, I would say that 

 I consider Mr. Coggshall has done a great in- 

 justice to the queen-breeders of the South. 

 On page 828 the inference that Mr. Todd 

 draws points still more to the queens from 

 the South. I certainly think that testimony 

 should be called for, and the truth of the 

 matter known before Southern queens are 

 condemned. It seems that, among the thou- 

 sands of queens that are bought in the South 

 some one w^ould have found this out before. 

 I for one do not fear the truth of the matter, 

 and am sure that the Southern queen- breed- 

 ers can show any amount of testimonials 

 from satisfied purchasers in the North. 



I feel sure that this matter has been mis- 

 represented, and I hope that you will do all 

 in your power to sift out the truth. 



James Island, S. C. H. M. Parker, Jr. 



[Referring back to the item by Mr. Cogg- 

 shall, in our April 15th issue, we do not find 

 any thing there that positively asserts that 

 our correspondent believes that Southern 

 bees are less hardy than others. Note that 

 he says that those bees that died that winter 

 "filled their brood-nest so full that they all 

 froze, and they dwindled badly." We i'nfer 

 that, because the hives were too full of stores 

 and no winter nest, this was the cause of 

 death, and not because the bees were souLh- 

 ernbi-ed. We do not believe that any one 

 would seriously assert that bees bred in the 

 South are less hardy than those bred in the 

 North. The bulk of queens this season of the 

 year are from the South; and yet we ven- 

 ture to state that all such queens will show 

 as good a record for honey as those bred 

 later in the North. If we are misinformed 

 as to the facts we shall be glad to be correct- 

 ed.— Ed.] 



the advanced honey prices a detriment. 

 As peddler, I have peddled for 15 years, 

 and I have the following to say: The advanc- 

 ed honey prices mean a standstill in honey- 

 trade. How can the peddler make a living 

 when his customers are not willing to pay 

 more for honey ? I can assure you, too, the 

 honey-trade rests mostly on peddlers. They 

 have to teach the people what honey is good 

 for; and, thanks to Gleanings, I am well 

 informed and am able to interest people 

 about bees. The commission house of Hil- 

 dreth & Segelken as well as Mr. Stringham, 

 of New York, will say that I have drawn 

 many cans of honey from there, and now it 



