. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Queens Duplicating Themselves. This subject should now be thoroughly discussed, tested, and settled. Friend Moon has sent us the following proposition, which should be accepted by those who claim that pure queens will invariably du- plicate themselves in their queen progeny. Friend Moon says : Rome, Ga., Aug. 14,1878. Our remarks in the American Bee Journal tor August, about queens dupli- cating themselves as to color, in their queen progeny, has caused quite a sensa- tion with some queen-breeders. They liave written us that tliey have queens tliat wi
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Queens Duplicating Themselves. This subject should now be thoroughly discussed, tested, and settled. Friend Moon has sent us the following proposition, which should be accepted by those who claim that pure queens will invariably du- plicate themselves in their queen progeny. Friend Moon says : Rome, Ga., Aug. 14,1878. Our remarks in the American Bee Journal tor August, about queens dupli- cating themselves as to color, in their queen progeny, has caused quite a sensa- tion with some queen-breeders. They liave written us that tliey have queens tliat will duplicate tliemselves every time in their queen progeny. Mr. Editor, its barely possible that ttiey have some of friend Gra- venhorst's " ; We certainly hope so. Wliile we claim to breed the Italian bee in all its purity, and as tine as are raised in tliis country, we must confess, that if any of our friends have got such qiieens, they are certainly ahead of us.— We were once taught that '• it is not all gold that glitters ;" so we think of queen rearing. We will now make the following proposition : To the person who will send to the Editor of the American Bee Journal, a pure Italian queen, that will duplicate herself every time, as to color in her queen progeny —we will send two good colonies of pure Italian bees. THE TEST. The Editor, to whom the queens are to be sent, shall raise twelve queens from the queen sent, and in case the twelve are all of a uniform color, a fac simile of their mother,—the person sending such queen shall receive, from us, two pure colonies of Italian bees. In case they are not all alike and of uni- form color, the one accepting the challenge shall send to the Editor, trouble, five pure, tested queens. Let those who have these princesses now come to the front, or haul in their flags. A. F. Moon. 21^" At the Burlington Convention we were awarded a " Cyprian " queen, to be sent us by Mr. Haines
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