. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 149 No yellow bands on her progeny. Nothing but those of pure Carniolan type. The latter was reared by Mr. Henry Alley of Wenham, Mass., from his noted $100 Italian queen. She is a very fine queen, and also shows well marked workers, yet we had those in our apiary before her that produced bees of a deeper golden hue even than hers. As before stated, these two colonies being so equally populated with worker bees, we at once decided to give them a trial test of their houey gathering qualities. The season however proved very
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. 149 No yellow bands on her progeny. Nothing but those of pure Carniolan type. The latter was reared by Mr. Henry Alley of Wenham, Mass., from his noted $100 Italian queen. She is a very fine queen, and also shows well marked workers, yet we had those in our apiary before her that produced bees of a deeper golden hue even than hers. As before stated, these two colonies being so equally populated with worker bees, we at once decided to give them a trial test of their houey gathering qualities. The season however proved very un- favorable for such a test, there being scarcely any honey in the blossoms— only that which was gathered from the forest trees. This was exceed- ingly dark and undesirable for family use, owing to the fact that the source from which it came being the work- ings of insects on the forest leaves. Well, as the season advanced the combs began filling up with what some of our neighbor apiarists called "bug ; We got out our big honey extractor, which we had made to order some years ago, with baskets large enough to receive any sized frame in use, and store room enough below the basket for at least 50 pounds of honey. On the first occasion we took from the Carniolan colony twenty pounds and some ounces, and from the Italians something over fifteen pounds, weighing the full combs in each case as we took them from the hives, then weighing again after ex- tracting. Later in the season we agian took from the former nearly thir- ty pounds and from the latter not quite twenty-five pounds, making a sura total of almost fifty pounds for the Carniolans and a little less than thirty-five pounds for the Italians, with plenty of honey left in the hives for their winter stores. Thus the reader will observe that the result of our test was about one-third more honey in favor of the Carniolans. This season the Carniolans bred up so much faster than the Italians that they became cr
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