4So illustrated stock doctor. 
t*2 vessel, having as the inner receptacle, a strainer. The accompanying 
WAX EXTRACTOR. 
oat represents the kind of vessel now in use by the best apiarians for this 
purpose. 
NEW RACES O^ BEES. 
The importation and breeding of Italian and other foreign bees is another' 
progressive idea of great value. Bees, like larger stock, deteriorate by in-' 
and-in breeding, and there are, common and superior tribes of bees, as there 
are of cattle, horses, sheep, swine and poultry. The Italians have proved' 
| a great advance on the ordinary black bees. They are hardier, more busy 
1 than “ the little busy bee ” with which all are familiar, more prolific, mor» 
CYPRIAN QUEEN. 
ITALIAN QUEEN. 
I beautiful in appearance, and, last but not least, more pacific — not so easily 
Iprovoked, and consequently less inclined to sting when meddled with by man. 
There are other races of bees from which much is expected; notably those of 
'the island of Cyprus, and the land of Palestine. So far as tried, these arc 
Relieved to be superior to the Italians, A huge bee found on the island a# 
