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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



Your lawyers, doctors, clerks, etc., t^hat 

 keep a few bees for recreation, have no in- 

 terest in this, but the specialist who keeps 

 bees only, it seems to me, ought to have. 



But kindly mention to the friends that I 

 was not so presumptions as to volunteer this 

 information; that you asked me, as being a 

 sort of brother specialtist, to write what I 

 thought about it. 



Summit Co., Ohio. Nov. 23. 



Some Splendid Testimony in Favor of 

 Carniolans. 



0. H. CHAPMAN. 



A.RLY in the spring of 1888 I ordered 

 my first Carniolan queens. They 

 reached me in due time and in fine 

 shape, but I assure you I looked them 

 o'er and o'er with a suspicious eye; half be- 

 lieving they wei-e too dark to ever become 

 favorites of mine (for I was all Italian then) ; 

 but, as they represented hard cash, I gave 

 them the places of five or six of my golden 

 beauties and closely watched the results. 

 The very first time I opened their hives I 

 found they were not so much German or 

 black bee as I had taken them to be, for 

 they were not in the corner of nor under the 

 hive when found, but moving about on the 

 combs attending strictly to business, and I 

 have yet to find a Carniolan queen off the 

 comb when taken from the hive. In due 

 time the young bees began to appear, when 

 I knew 'positively that I had somethiiig new. 

 Now I commenced to watch and compare 

 and have continued to watch and compare 

 ever since. 



So well pleased was I with the first queens 

 that in August I sent for more queens which, 

 with what I had, and with what I reared, 

 gave Carniolan queens (not all purely 

 mated of course) to just one-half of my 

 apiary. 



The test began with thirty-five colonies of 

 each. As all wintered without loss I cannot 

 say that either had the lead on May 1st, 

 1889, but then the Carniolans commenced to 

 lead, and all were in just grand shape when 

 the cold wave struck us the last of May. 

 During the cold spell three Carniolan and 

 nine Italian colonies died outright, and the 

 rest were in a sad state. Every queen cell 

 that I had started was lost — but to the text. 

 The first five colonies to swarm were Carni- 

 olans; the first half ton of comb honey finish- 

 ed ready to come off was gathered by Carni- 

 olans, and full three-fourths of the 3,800 

 pounds of comb honey that I secured this 

 year was stored by the Carniolans; and then 

 the superior appearance of the product was 

 such that I have this fall replaced all queens 

 with those reared from my best Carniolan 

 queen. 



Although I work for comb honey I have 

 extracted GOO or 800 pounds of honey from 

 autumn bloom and have 110 colonies now in 

 the cellar all in prime shape. 



For extracted honey I can see but little 

 difference in the two races. Think the Car- 

 niolans the more readily shaken from the 

 combs. 



CoHOOTAH, Mich., Dec. .5, 1889. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, DECEMBER 10, 1889. 



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 to look through our advertising columns (in 

 which we have a pardonable pride) and see 

 if he does not find something in which he is 

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PEIZES FOE ESSAYS. 



Bro. Newman is offering prizes (f5.00, 

 |3.00 and |2.00.) for the best essays on " Ex- 

 tracted Honey;" each essay not to exceed 

 2,000 words ; to be written by a subscriber 

 and received before January 1, 1890. We 

 have often thought of adopting this 

 plan, but have not done so because of the 

 difficulty in making just decisions that would 

 be satisfactory to all. Some of those who 

 receive neither prizes nor compensation for 

 their essays ?*iay think their talents not ap- 

 preciated. We shall watch with interest 

 Bro. Newman's enterprise. 



SENDING *' BEES BY THE POUND " THEOUGH 

 THE MAILS. 



Notwithstanding the opposition that has 

 beeii manifested against the unwise scheme 

 of sending " bees by the pound " through the 

 mails, Bros. Pratt and Doolittle are still in- 

 clined to champion the cause ; intimating 

 that those who oppose the cause may be 

 lacking in enterprise, or fail to see how ad- 

 vantageous it will be to those living some 

 distance from an express office. Not for a 

 moment would we stand still in tlie pathway 

 along which iniiirovements are leaving their 

 footprints ; and we know from years of ex- 



