. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1908. American ?ae Jonrnal up a strain of those bees, I should have obtained a bee that would have been a record-breaker. This is a line of work the Government might well take up at' its experimental station at Chico, in the northern portion of the State. I believe I wrote briefly on this matter some years ago. I am sure it would pay any one who has the time and inclination to make a study of bee-breeding. Some years ago a Mr. D. H. Johnson, of San Diego County (this State) came out strongly in print in favor of the common bee as a honey-gat
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1908. American ?ae Jonrnal up a strain of those bees, I should have obtained a bee that would have been a record-breaker. This is a line of work the Government might well take up at' its experimental station at Chico, in the northern portion of the State. I believe I wrote briefly on this matter some years ago. I am sure it would pay any one who has the time and inclination to make a study of bee-breeding. Some years ago a Mr. D. H. Johnson, of San Diego County (this State) came out strongly in print in favor of the common bee as a honey-gatherer. He held that the black bees and their cross- es, gathered fully as much honey as the most thoroughbred races; that the honey was fully as fine in quality, and that "no bee on earth builds such delicate combs and caps the honey with more virgin whiteness than the poor, despised black ; Others have so held, too. While the Italians have some good points, the blacks, when as carefully cul- tured as the others, will be as good honey-gatherers; they will commence to breed earlier in the season, and there is no doubt about their being more im- maculate cappers of honey. I believe the proclivity they have of rushing to the lowest e-xtremity of a comb when they are undergoing examination by the apiarist, can be bred out of them. Who will give us Apis Californica, to put it somewhat unscientifically?. 'BeedoMV^ 'Boiled T>owivJ -JT" A Kink in Heating Honey. The following is from The Bee- Keepers' Review, page 338: "The heat- ing of honey prevents granuation, and I believe that the higher the tempera- ture to which the honey is brought, the more effective the treatment; and, it is very important to add, the greater the danger of injury to the honey. The length of time that the heat is con- tiniied also has a bearing upon the dan- ger of injury. Keeping these ideas in view, Mr. Wm. A. Selser heats his honey to a higher temperature than is usually done (168
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