. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEB-KEEPERS* REVIEW 95. ^*^^:^="!^T^^^>:^J^ees that delighted me greatly. They were just plain, dark, three- banded Italians, but as workers I have never seen them equaled. They seemed possessed of a steady, quiet determinati .n that enabled them to lay up surplus ahead of llie others. Easier bees to handle I have never seen. It sometimes seemed as though they were too busy attending to their to bother with anything else. Their honey was capped with a snowy whiteness rivaling that of the blacks. In addition to these desirable tra
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEB-KEEPERS* REVIEW 95. ^*^^:^="!^T^^^>:^J^ees that delighted me greatly. They were just plain, dark, three- banded Italians, but as workers I have never seen them equaled. They seemed possessed of a steady, quiet determinati .n that enabled them to lay up surplus ahead of llie others. Easier bees to handle I have never seen. It sometimes seemed as though they were too busy attending to their to bother with anything else. Their honey was capped with a snowy whiteness rivaling that of the blacks. In addition to these desirable traits must be added that of wintering well. If any bees came through the winter it was the colonies of this strain. They came a^ near being ideal bees as any I have possessed. All this was twenty years ago; and several times since then I have bought queens of this same breeder, and I have always found this strain of bees possessed of those .same good qualities—in- dustr>-, gentleness, and hardiness. In addition to this they cap their honey as the backs do theirs. I have frequently corresponded with this breeder, and with those who have bought queens of him, and I am thoroughly convinced that he has a strain of bees that are far siipcrior to the general run of stock. If I were starting an apiar>-, for the production of honey, I should un- hesitatingly stock it with this strain of bees, rhis breeder has always in a mod- -t. quiet sort of way, nothing in proportion to what his stock would have warranted, and I have decided that I can help him, and l>enefit my readers, at a prf>fit to , by ad- vertising these bees in a manner befittingly en- ergetic. The price of these queens will be $ each. This may seem like a high price, but the man who pays it will make dollars where this breed- er and myself make cents; and when j'oii come to read the conditions under which thej- are sold, it will not seem so high. The qiieens sent out will all be yoimg queen
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