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country cottage of Mr, Thomas Wm. 

 Cowan, on July 28, 1879. 



Thomas G. Newman is also known to 

 many German bee-keepers, for he visited 

 the Wanderversamlung -der Deutsche 

 Oestrreich-Ungarischen Bienenzeuchter, 

 at Prague. His residence is in the world- 

 renowned city of Chicago, Illinois, 

 where in 1893 the great World's Fair 

 will be held, for which event the Ameri- 

 can bee-keepers are now making great 

 preparations. This exhibition, so far 

 as apicultural interests are concerned, 

 will be a grand one. 



Thomas G. Newman has, outside of 

 his editorship, compiled and published 

 some valuable apicultural works. One 

 is entitled, " Honey as Food and Medi- 

 cine," and the other, '^Bees and Honey ; 

 or Bee-Keeping for Pleasure and Profit." 



Newman has repeatedly been elected 

 President of the North American Bee- 

 Keepers' Association, and also of the 

 National Bee-Keepers' Union. The 

 meetings of the former he attends reg- 

 ularly, and is always an able speaker, 

 and is listened to with interest. As 

 Manager of the Union, he successfully 

 defends the rights of American bee- 

 keepers. 



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Carniolaii Coiiniiflnims, 



J. A. GREEN. 



Having been very busy for some time, 

 getting my bees home from out-apiaries, 

 and preparing them for Winter, I have 

 allowed Mr. Alley's conundrums, on 

 page 524, to remain unansw^ered until 

 now. They are not at all hard. 



To the experienced apiarist, Mr. 

 Alley's explanations are as transparent 

 as his statements are unfounded. But 

 if a word of mine may help to prevent 

 the inexperienced from being taken in, 

 it shall be given. 



Mr. Alley's reply to my statement in 

 regard to the generally-accepted belief 

 that the meeting of queen and drone 

 may take place a mile or more from 

 their respective hives is simply a "bluff." 



He says that " the inexperienced bee- 

 keeper is the only person who would 

 make such statement." I personally 

 know that many of the best apiarists 

 agree with tlie statements made by me 

 on page 467, and since their publica- 

 tion I have received letters from several 

 of the most prominent ones, endorsing 

 and commending the article. 



Mr. Alley asks: "If the Italian 

 drones would fly 2 miles to meet the 

 Carniolan queens, why would not the 



Carniolan drones fly the same distance 

 and mate with the Italian queens?" 



This might be a poser, if it were true 

 that they did not ; but Mr. Alley makes 

 it as plain as day in the paragraph 

 above, wherein he says that drones were 

 not permitted to fly from more than one 

 Carniolan colony. 



Within a radius of 4 miles from Mr. 

 Alley's apiary, no doubt, there are 

 dozens, and perhaps hundreds, of colo- 

 nies of Italians. 



Suppose, for the sake of illustration, 

 that there are a hundred. Then, even 

 if it were not for the fact that a queen is 

 more likely to mate with a drone from 

 another apiary than with one from her 

 own, there would be 100 chances that 

 a Carniolan queen would mate with an 

 Italian drone to one that she would mate 

 with a Carniolan. 



On the other hand, there would be 

 only one chance in a hundred for an 

 Italian queen to mate with a Carniolan 

 drone. This fully -answers both of Mr. 

 Alley's questions. 



Mr. Alley says: "I have explained how 

 they (the "golden" Carniolans) were 

 produced, and have informed the readers 

 of the Bee Journal of the method by 

 which any one can reach the same re- 

 sults." Mr. Alley has not "explained" 

 how they were produced. He has told 

 how they were produced, and I, and 

 others, have furnished the explanation. 



Undoubtedly, any one who follows Mr. 

 Alley's methods will achieve the same 

 results, but it is to be hoped there are 

 not many who, having bred a bee 

 fifteen-sixteenths, or more Italian, 

 would claim it as a typical Carniolan, 

 and by specious argument attempt to 

 bolster up that position. 



I appreciated Mr. Alley's compliment 

 to the manner in which I have treated 

 the subject. I do not consider the 

 columns of a public journal a proper 

 place for abuse and vituperation. I 

 would rather prove a man a swindler 

 than to call him one. If I have treated 

 Mr. Alley in a manner different from 

 that of some others, it does not in the 

 least follow that my private opinion of 

 his business methods is at all different 

 from that of those whose opinion might 

 be too emphatic to look well in print. 



I know that by continuing to oppose 

 Mr. Alley in this matter, I am probably 

 throwing away my only chance of get- 

 ting from him those queens ordered and 

 paid for over a year ago, but as I had 

 about given them up, it will not be a 

 fresh loss. 



Since the publication of my article, on 

 page 466, he has shown a commendable, 



