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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



" The two Italian queens you sent me ar- 

 rived all O. K., and were introduced on the 

 28th of June. It now looks as if my bees 

 were at least three-fourths Italians. Besides 

 being very prolific they are perfect beauties. 

 The bees are gentle and quiet and show no 

 disposition to fight. I have had the pleasure 

 of examining your bees in the apiary by the 

 side of queens costing from $2 to jfT.SO, and 

 for beauty, size, color, etc., yours surpass 

 them all. Your bees embody all the fine 

 traits that the fancy raiser can boast of, aiid 

 any one can purchase them for practical and 

 profitable bee raising and have all the fancy 

 points thrown in." 



T. K. Massie, 

 Concord Church. W. Va. 



This testimonial alone covers all the points 

 referred to. Call the next witness, Bro. 

 Hutchinson. 



C. M, Goodspeed, of Skaneateles, N. Y., 

 under date Nov. 27th, 1890, writes as follows : 

 " For the last three years I have been buying 

 queens of you, and for several years before 

 that my yard was well supi)lied with the same 

 strain. I have done this because after re- 

 peated trials I have found them superior to 

 anything I could get. The colony that did 

 the best in honey this season had a queen 

 from you put in last fall. I am not ashamed 

 to put my name behind such a strain of 

 bees." 



C. M. Goodspeed. 



[Mr. Hearn also sends testimonials from 

 J. H. Done, of Vinzee, Me.; W. L. E wing, of 

 Vincennes, Ind.; and E. C. Eaglesfield, of 

 Berlin, Wis. ; but, as they are in the same 

 strain as those given, I hope Mr. Hearn will 

 pardon me for omitting them, as there are 

 so many things that will be crowded out of 

 this issue. — Ed.] 



So, Mr. Alley, you see your boasting about 

 killing us comes too soon. Remember the 

 old bible advice : '* Let him boast who taketh 

 off the harness," etc. 



You garble my proposition in your reply, 

 and twist out of it by saying how bad you 

 would feel when you should reach out your 

 hand to " scoop it in, (the $200.00). If you 

 can "scoop" in my money, Mr. Alley, on 

 this proposition, all right, you are welcome 

 to it, but I think you are more afraid of 

 losing ,|200.00 than you have scruples about 

 "scooping it in." 



Then you add, " How foolish to propose 

 such a way of settling an important question 

 like this." 



How can it be settled, Mr. Alley, except by 

 actual tests ? But you desire your " thous- 

 ands of customers to decide the matter." 

 Would that be fair ? Perhaps your " thous- 

 ands of customers " have never tried my 

 strain of bees. Certainly your method of 

 settling this question is unreasonably fool- 

 ish, but let us take another witness who has 

 tried both your bees and mine side by side, 

 and see what he says : 



G. S. Wheeler, of New Ipswich, N. H. 

 under date of Aug. 27th, 1890, writes : " The 

 queen you seat me is doing well. Her bees 

 are the most yellow I ever saw. They are 

 great workers." Again, under date of Sept. 

 10th, 1890, he says : " Mr. Alley says he can 

 show handsomer bees from his yellow Car- 

 niolans than those W'estern fellows can of 

 their five banded Italians, and that they are 

 not produced by in-breeding as in their case. 

 If in-breeding produces such workers as the 

 workers are from the queen you sent me, 

 then I say breed them that way. Alley's 

 work well, but yours are a long ivays ahead. 

 Under date Sept. 29th, 1890 he further says : 

 " The bees from the first queen you sent me 

 are very fine in color and about as gentle as 

 flies, and fine workers." Here, Mr. Alley, is 

 where the "fly" proposition comes in, in- 

 stead of in honey gathering. If you want any 

 further testimonials and will publish them 

 in the AjJi. I shall be pleased to send them. 



Fbenohville, W. Va., Dec. 8, 1890. 



Bee-Keepers' Review. 



PUBLISHED MONTHLY. 



W. Z. HUTCHINSOfl, Ed. & PPop. 



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FLINT, MICHIGAN, JANUARY 10, 1891 



Two OB THREE excellent articles on honey 

 houses are necessarily laid over until next 

 month. 



Gleanings has a new department, called 

 "Stray Straws," conducted by Dr. Miller. 

 It consists of spicy little items of from one 

 to ten lines. In one sense it is " bee gossip," 

 and the Doctor proves him self to be a most 

 excellent "gossiper." 



