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REARING ITALIAN QUEENS FOR HIE MARKET. 
The known superiority of the Italian bee, produces 
a great and constant demand for pure queens. 1 he 
price that parties who have been at the expense of im- 
porting queens, and Italianizing the bees in the entire 
neighborhood, have to charge for pure queens, has in- 
duced many persons to ingage in the business ot rais- 
ing them. Many of these persons are not competent 
to judge as to the purity of the queens from which 
they are breeding, or that of the queens sold by them, 
thus greatly endangering the reputation of the pure 
Italtan variety. Others endeavor -to make capital by 
advertising, using enlarged cuts of their bees, more 
highly colored than any colony ever yet found in the 
country ; or by claiming that they have the only exist- 
ing situation for raising pure queens. All beginners 
should be sure that they have the pure variety. To ob 
tain it, get your first queen from reliable parties, and 
demand some sort of security ; then begin to rear them 
upon practical and simple principles ; many columns 
written on this subject are better adapted for the guid- 
ance of the “bee juggler,” than for that of the practi- 
cal queen-breeder.. 
I do not think it wise for persons rearing queens to 
sell, to send any but those that have been tested and 
proved to be pure. The practice of selling hybrid 
queens, or sending those not tested, to parties com- 
