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GLEANmGS IN BEE CULTURE; 



Sept. 



queens that cost so much money soaring away 

 up in the blue sky. They all came back final- 

 ly, although one that flew away late in the 

 evening staid out all night. I presume she lit 

 somewhere to rest, and became so chilled that 

 she did not take wing again until the sun 

 warmed her up next morning. About this 

 time I took to clipping their wings and stopped 

 the fun, but they seem to have a great fancy 

 for flying in the open air, after their long sea 

 voyage. 



Well, I introduced the whole 14, besides 6 

 more that I got of friend Blood, at about the 

 same time, without any loss ; did I not do 

 well ? It has been said that imported queens 

 were more dilficul''. to introduce than others, 

 but I have not found it so. They were all in- 

 troduced on the plan given in the ABC; 

 some were let out as soon as received, and 

 were laying next day ; others were let out the 

 day after, but some had to be put back several 

 times before the bets would let them "abide in 

 peace." 



The one that was gone all night was caged 

 nearly a week, and she was taken out of a 

 cluster of bees perhaps a half dozen times. 

 As she was a very bright, active queen, you 

 can imagine somewhat the expression of my 

 face, when I found her in the nucleus hive next 

 morning. I had been feeling so badly about 

 her loss, that I lay awake in the night, resolv- 

 ing to clip the wing of every queen in the 

 apiary, as soon as they commenced laying, no 

 matter if a few customers did object. By the 

 way, dear reader, do you know how awful bad 

 a body does feel after losing a valuable queen ? 

 If you reel it has been partly through careless- 

 ness it makes it ever so much worse. 



Do you wish to know what they are like ? 

 Well, they are of all sizes and colors, and just 

 about as diflerent as queens would be if you 

 picked them up at random around home. 

 Some were large and fine looking when re- 

 ceived, and some were very small, and looked 

 like queens just before being fertilized. When 

 Ihe workers hatch out I will tell you what 

 they are like. 



As all the queens I have received from I)a- 

 daut have been quite dark, I was somewhat 

 astonished to find so many of these quite light, 

 and yet I sent no request for light ones, for 1 

 ■would just as soon have the dark ones myself. 

 If they produce as energetic honey gatherers 

 as those received of friend D., I shall be 

 abundantly satisfied. There was one in the 

 lot received of friend Biood, that is as light 

 as almost any queen I ever saw, and as her 

 workers are even lighter than our albinos, we 

 regard her as quite an acquisition. Her bees 

 are also unusually large, and we have com- 

 menced already to rear dollar queens from her. 

 All larva; sent out hereafter will be from this 

 queen. 



Now I suppose most of you are ready to de- 

 cide that imported queens can be furnished for 

 <^5 00 ; and so they can in fact, without any 

 trouble, if we sell them as friend Blood does, 

 without any guarantee of safe delivery, or 

 anything of the kind. One more point ; our 

 neighbor Rice has an imported queen bought 

 of Dadant, that he thinks produces bees rath- 

 er smaller than usual, and hardly feels satis- 

 fled with her. Our neighbor Pratt has one, or 



rather had, that only laid eggs a couple of 

 weeks, very few at that, and then died. If I 

 sell you these queens and they turn out thus, 

 some of them, shall you stand the loss or shall 

 I? If I must make them all good — proliflc, 

 young, nice bees, of good size, and guarantee 

 safe delivery, in short make all satisfactory — 

 I am afraid I should have to have f 7 as i)a- 

 dant does. I know that most of you prefer 

 light colored queens, and some of you "scold" 

 like everything if you get a dark one for a dol- 

 lar queen. It might be diflScult to furnish im- 

 ported queens having all these good qualities 

 for even $20. After having given the matter 

 some study, I have decided to furnish import- 

 ed queens just as we do dollar queens, without 

 any guarantee at all, for $5. At this price, all 

 you have to do is to buy another and try again, 

 if the first one should not please you. For f6 

 I will send you one I have tested in my own 

 apiary, and guarantee safe arrival, fertility, 

 etc. To do-this, I shall have to keep quite a 

 number in ray apiary the year rouncl. The 

 latter I can ship at ouce, at any time, except 

 during severe winter weather, but the former 

 only during the importing season. 



The, Subscriber offers for sale at 



Cedar Creek, N. J., the entire APIARY of the late Dr. 

 Kimpton, consisting of 



^O Colonies of 



Also, one Honey Extractor, Honey Pails, Section Boxes, 

 Barrels, &c., &c. Terms cash or approved paper. 



Cedar Creek. N. J. 



100 



FOR S&LE AT 



for orders of five or more. Sinsle. 36.00. Lanzstroth hive, 

 size of frnrne, inside ITxii'o. Stroni; colonies in a perfectly 

 healthy condition, plenty of stores. 

 9-10 ' ALBERT POTTER, Eureka, Wis. 



I will mail hybrid queens reared from imported moth- 

 ers, for 50 cents, safe arrival sruaranteed. These will 

 produce pure drone.<i, and the vcorkers as honej gatherers, 

 are nearly, if not quite, equal to any. 



A. I. ROOT, Medina, Ohio. 



You cannot look over the back No's of Gleanings 

 or any other Periodical with satisfaction, unless they 

 are in some kind of a Binder. Who has not said— 

 "Dear nte what a bother — I must have last 

 month's Journal and it's no where to be found." Put 

 each No. in the Emerson Binder as soon as it come? 

 and you can sit down happy, any time you wish to find 

 any thing you may have previously seen even though 

 it were months ago. 



Binders tor Glkanings (will hold them for four 

 years) gilt lettered, free by mail for 50, 60, and 75c, ac- 

 cording to quality. For tabic of prices of Binders for 

 any Periodical, see Oct. No., Yol. 2. Send in your 

 ciders'. A. I. ROOT, Medina, O. 



