. Bees and honey : our 40th edition illustrated catalogue & price list, of implements for bee culture with directions for their use. A. I. Root Company; Bee culture. EEMEMBES THE PEICES OF BEES AN3 QUEENS ON THIS PA5E AEE ONLY FOE nJL7, AUGUST, SEPTEIIBEE AND 0CT0BE2 IF YOU WANT THEM DUEIN3 ANY OTHEE UONTH. YOU WUST 00 BY THE TABLE ON PEECEDING PAGE. 1S83 IMPLEMENTS IN BEE CULTURE. HYBEID aUEENS. It is muoh the same way, with hybrid quoens. I would say in favor of these, tha't, when roared from choice imported stock, thcv prove about equal for honey gatherer?, to the full blood Italians. U
. Bees and honey : our 40th edition illustrated catalogue & price list, of implements for bee culture with directions for their use. A. I. Root Company; Bee culture. EEMEMBES THE PEICES OF BEES AN3 QUEENS ON THIS PA5E AEE ONLY FOE nJL7, AUGUST, SEPTEIIBEE AND 0CT0BE2 IF YOU WANT THEM DUEIN3 ANY OTHEE UONTH. YOU WUST 00 BY THE TABLE ON PEECEDING PAGE. 1S83 IMPLEMENTS IN BEE CULTURE. HYBEID aUEENS. It is muoh the same way, with hybrid quoens. I would say in favor of these, tha't, when roared from choice imported stock, thcv prove about equal for honey gatherer?, to the full blood Italians. UNTESTED or dollar qiteens. The dollar queens are always taken just as they come, and are never culled. Customers often ask us to pick out a large, yellow one/or them. My friend, who would then have the small, dark ones? We can't do it for anjbody, not even the Queeu of England. If you want to pick, it must bfi done from the tested queens. Very small dark ones. when we have them. %, les?; may prove equal to any tor real "; Two-noLLAR TESTED These are queens that produce good three banded workers, but are themselves darker or smaller than the $) queens, and mqy be a year old. THREE-DOLLAK OH SELECT TESTED QUEENS. The selected tested are the best qtjeeiis we can pick out, in two apiaries of over oOO colonies.—large, yellow, young, good layero; their bees gentle, finely marked, and good workers. These queens are al- ivays taken from our own or nciijhhor H.'s apiaru. If you pay for one of these, you may take your pick out of the whole apiary. FOUR-nOLiiAH INDIFFEEENT imported queens. It were no more than fair to inform our friends tliat imported rmeens. as a rule, are small and dark. If von want a lar^e yel- low queen, do not order an imported. The "indifferent" imported queens are the dark- est and smallest, and the poorest layers, when we have any such, but are to be good, serviceable queens. Many of them turn out to be equal to the bes
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