, 1861-09-23
For the Chicago Tribune.1
AGRICULTURAL.


This new variety Of the honey bee Is Great
ing cen siderable interest among bee-keepers
generally. We learn that they are being rap
idly disseminated throughout the United
6tates, and that the prospect is they wil, a
fen years heIce, be more common than those
Of the native race. Aside from their many al
legged superiorities over the native race, 1t is
thought they will prove valuable acquisi-
tioR TO this country, inasmnch. as those who
procure these bees with the design Of propa-
gati8g them, will, from uecesslty, be COM
PEELED to acquaint themselves with the habits
Latest and best approved methods Of agficul-
tural management.
We would call the readers attention to the
fact ttat colony Of the pure Italian bees was
sn exhibition during the recent Illinois State
Fair. They were exhibited By their proprie-
tor, n. n. Baldrloge, Of Middleport, Niagara
Co., n T.. We learn that Mr. B. hAs been en-
gegea In the propagation Of the Italian bees
for some considerable time and has 4 fine api-
art ct them near his place Of residence, The
+ colony on exhibition YVES in one Of the Lange-
troth hives. These hives ara provided with
each one OF which il built sheet Of comb.
The frHmea are 50 nicely arranged Is 10 allow
thereraova1 OF each cemb separately. By this
meanR the operator has complete control Of
the contents of the hire HI. B. took ont
each comb, with the adhtring bees, separately.
VIC AAA lA0 ptEAoA4G VI SNE1HE Luc 4kEt4aU
queen, the conditions Of the combs, the brood
in the different stages Of Development, etc.,
etc. The 1taliin Queen is large and more pro
life than the queen Of the native race We
are informed that the Italian queens sport in
| colors-some being nearly black and apparent.
nicely colored-e large per centage of her
abdomen being Of a rich golden color: The
| Italian workers are each provided with
tso yello.0 bands pasaing nearly, arouud
the abdomen This not only renders them ex-
tremely beautiful, but very essy to distinguish
than the black bees, and more slender or Waip-
| like. They are claimed to be more docilc,
| more haroy and more industrious than tha NJ
| tive variety. These bees have been actively
and late In the evening, aud during the coo2
weather. The ratye bees, In hives standing
near, were, during the Aforesaid timer, com.
paratively in ttate Of iRactiTity. It requires
but short time to change native colony to
Italians. This is done BY simply removing
pure fertile Italian queen. The ch1nge from
Datiyes to ItaaanR, and e7ce ce1sa, cah be effect
ed In about enc hundred days, as that, through
! the aid Of Italians, is ascertalned to be about
the average natural life OF the worker beea
during the working season. The colony On
on the fifteenth day Of July Last, al
which time the Italian queen was given them.
Sixty days after the shove time It was asctr
tanned, upon examination, that all the natisv
bees had disappeared. The colony il now
very populous and purely Italian. Granting
these facts to be true, It will be obvious thai
al that il necessary for the bee keepers in th.
West to Italianize their aplaries, is to procure
one Of more queens Of the italian race, ant
substitute them for the native queens ii ths
native colonies. The queens are safely sem
to any point in the United Ststes.
The Anser:can Be Journal, published by 4
n. spapglcr s. Co., Philadelphia, a periodical
devoted Exclusively to bee mattsrs, will Civ.
fall Instructions in gard to introducing safe
u the Italian queens to native colonies ; alsi
much valuable information in regard to tn,
history, superiority, and propagation Of th
Italian bees. Every bee keeper especially, an,
every ioVer Of Natural History, .houil be
subscriber to the dnaefTcaa Bee Journal, tn
fist and only periodical Of the kind i
All erics. We propose to give from time t,
time such extracts in regard to bees, takel
from the Bee journal and other periodicals, a
We think viii prove Of Talue ant. interest 10 th
central reader.