The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-10
REARING OF HONEY BEES.
WHERE THE WINGED WORKERS
 REARED

In che West and South are sOId-Cuba,
 Jamaica and sants Domingo are che Islands to w hIch the GrsatSst Num-
 ber of Queen Bssa is Ssnt-- From those
 Islands cones Imported Honey
 Of the many orders for queer things received by New York exporters from various quarters of the globe, perhaps none is more interesting than an occa- sional request for queen bees. Such or- ders come principally from the West Indies, and inasmuch as the commis- sion merchant is generally called upon to handle the honey and wax produced there by the progeny of these insects, he finds a safe business investment in shipping the bees, even though they form no source of profit in themselves.
 Queen bees are reared in the west and south, in the districts where clover is abundant, and the industry is by no means insignificant. Ohio is a large breeding center. There is one firm iii Medina which has nine hundred colo nies devoted to the rearing of high-class honey queens. mesides factory in which are manufactured the hundred and one things used by the up-to-date bee-keeper.
 DIFFERENT GRADES OF BEES.
 There are many grades of queen bees, and the breeder must thoroughly under stand the highly organized insects if he expects to. produce vigorous, healthy stock that can be depended on to gather honey in large quantities. To this end he selects for mothers. none but honey queens (usually importeO-qpeens whose progeny have excel.ed all others in the apiary. ...
 In placing his order the buyer is re- cuestad to specify whether he desires a fred clover or a honey queen. The first mentioned stock is bred for red clover. while the last named will show up well during an ordinary honey flow from clover. bassWood and other flowers.
 The prices very according to the grades. An untested queen costs one dollar. a tested queen two dollars. and those called select tested three doi- lars. Breeding queens and select breed ing queens bring five dollars and seven and one-half. respectively, and an ''ex- tra select" one year old. is worth ter dollars. Imported Italian queens, fur nished by the best breeders cf thai country. are the ones usually sent tc the West Indies. and they are thor oughly tested in the western apiaries before shipment. They cost from three to five dollars each, but common Ital- ian queens. bred in this country from pure imported stock, can be bought al lower figures. ..., ... s..... ..sss~s :..
 HOW SEES ARE SHIPPED.
 Bees canno. be supplied before May 15 nor later than November t5. They travel in certain amount of luxury being shipped in ventilated boxes, con taining one or more roony apartments and the postage to all parts of the uni' ted States and Canada is one cent. Al the cages, as they are called, are pro. visioned with special bee candy, so tina \ the queen may never go hungry. ane the export cages, in addition. with small portion of sealed honey. Int honey and the prepared food make { satisfactory combination, and fifty u seventy five per cent. of the queens ar, delivered alive, no matter what lengti the journey may be. Bees for expor travel in cages larger than the ordinar, size and come to New York through tn mails or by express, afterward going t their West Indian destination, not in 1 mailbag. but under the care of tn steamers purser. The cages ar marked Queen Bee! Deliver quick! and postmen, expressmen and ships of flcers follow the instructions faithfully HONEY GATHERING IN WEST IN DIES. .s
 Cuba, Jamaica and Santo Domingl are the islands to which the greates number of queens are sent, and 1t f from there that New York receives tn bulk of It's imported honey. @>-
 Last year more than thirteen thou sand packages-tierces, barrels and tin --were received here, and as a 'tierc Twill hold one hundred gallons, barre fifty and a tin something less thai ] twenty gallons, 1t may be seen that tn merchant is amply repaid for the trou ble he takes in supplying the orders fo queens.-New York Evening Post.
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