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A queen which has mated with a drone of 

 another race is a " cross-mated " queen. To 

 call her a "hybrid" is worse than an ab- 

 surdity. 



Quality, etc., has nothing to do with the 

 matter. We have seen mongrel dogs that 

 were amongst the best dogs existing, but 

 they were mongrels, nevertheless. If a bee 

 is the descendant of a mixed ancestry — 

 Italian, Carniolan, black, etc., it is a mon- 

 grel, no matter how good it may be. 



A cross necessarily implies the progeny of 

 two races and may be tirst, second, third, 

 etc. Any standard work on breeding will 

 give full information on the point. 



As applied to bees the whole subject was 

 carefully worked out by me and published 

 ten years ago in my little " Dictionary of 

 Apiculture." 



Cedar Beae, N. -I. July 24, 1894. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN. AUG. 10. 1894. 



Eighteen Newspapers and periodicals 

 are published in Flint which is a town of 

 only 10,tKX) inhabitants. 



"Hybrid" as applied to cross-bred bees 

 is, of course, incorrect, but the word has 

 been misused in this way so long that it is 

 doubtful if a reform can be brought about. 



A Ten-Penny Wire Nail is recommended 

 by Gleanings for prying loose frames. It 

 can be carried in the pencil pocket and will 

 answer very well unless the frames are stuck 

 in "awful " tight. 



The Apioultubist for July did not con- 

 tain so many pages as usual, the editor con- 

 sidering " a few pages well-filled with val- 

 uable information more satisfactory than 

 forty pages of trashy stuff." I think that 

 Bro. Alley's views and management in this 

 instance are really excellent. 



Six Queens were sent me about two weeks 

 ago with no mark whatever on the cages to 

 indicate who sent them. The cages looked 

 like home-made ones — sawed out with a foot 

 power saw. Who sent them ? 



Ten Pounds per colony is the extent of my 

 honey crop this year. White clover is my 

 only source for surplus and it was pretty 

 nearly a failure. ( )thers in this vicinity who 

 were near basswood secured fair crops. 



Dead Brood has been found so frequently 

 and in such quantities in the apiary at the 

 "Home of the Honey Bees," in Medina, 

 Ohio, that no more bees or queens will be 

 sent from that apiary this year. It is not 

 expected that foul brood will develop from 

 the dead brood, but it is thought best to err 

 on the safe side. 



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Bee Escapes are a great comfort. I real- 

 ize this every season when I have honey to 

 take off after the harvest is passed. The es- 

 capes may be put on at evening and the next 

 morning the cases free from bees may be 

 carried into the honey house ; and the beauty 

 of it is, the bees are not made cross and irri- 

 table for several days. 



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Candy of the right kind for provisioning 

 queen cages is the main thing in shipping 

 queens successfully. According to Glean- 

 ings we may yet have to return to the use of 

 granulated sugar for making candy in order 

 to secure uniform results. It should be 

 pounded as fine as possible and then made 

 into a candy with extracted honey. 



In Handling Combs after the first of Au- 

 gust, see that they are replaced in the same 

 order as taken out. So says the Progressive, 

 and gives as a reason that a colony is often 

 damaged by having the position of the combs 

 changed when preparations have been begun 

 for winter. This would probably make more 

 difference if the bees are to be wintered out 

 of doors. 



Full Credit is the thing to give when 

 copying an article, or even reproducing an 

 idea, that has appeared in another journal. 

 I have more respect for the man that has the 

 audacity and effrontery to steal an article 

 right out and out and palm it off as his own, 

 than for one who will slyly label his quota- 

 tions : " an exchange," " a western journal," 

 "an American journal," and so forth, thus 



