. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1913. American ^Bee Journal. Ai'iABV oi L, C. McCarty. of Nampa. Idaho. 'Tills yard was starled in tlie spring of iQio with 70 colonies. There are now 450 colonies in modern hives. Jhoco worth of comb honey was sold in three ; apiarist himself. The Italians are more prolific than the blacks. They soon have their hives full of brood, and then, having no more room, swarm. What else could they do ? If their owner had given them a larger hive, they would have remained, built up a strong- er colony, and given far more surplus than th
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. February, 1913. American ^Bee Journal. Ai'iABV oi L, C. McCarty. of Nampa. Idaho. 'Tills yard was starled in tlie spring of iQio with 70 colonies. There are now 450 colonies in modern hives. Jhoco worth of comb honey was sold in three ; apiarist himself. The Italians are more prolific than the blacks. They soon have their hives full of brood, and then, having no more room, swarm. What else could they do ? If their owner had given them a larger hive, they would have remained, built up a strong- er colony, and given far more surplus than the blacks. But some apiarists, like many other men, cannot see be- yond the tips of their noses. M.\TING ST.^TIONS. Something has been said about es- tablishing mating stations such as ex- ist in Switzerland. The conditions with us are not the same, .^s stated above, the apiaries there are small, very numerous, and close together, Many have skeps or box-hives, produc- ing a large number of drones. Under such circumstances the chances of having queens mated with the drones of the same apiary are very slim in- deed. Furthermore, and worse yet, if the improved stock is of the same color, the mismating cannot be detected. Thus improvement is impossible. To obviate the difticulty, mating stations are established in isolated places, the best of stock installed, plenty of drones are reared, and the apiarists send their queens there to be mated. The charges for it are very moderate. INFLUENCE OE DRONES. This brings us to the question whether the worker-bees derive their qualities from the drone or the queen stock. From both likely, but I think chiefly from tlie drone. In the human race, and in all of our domestie stocks, the influence of both sides is equal, as far as we know. But it takes both parents to produce the offspring, no matter whether this is male or female. With bees it is altogether different. The unimpregnated queen eggs pro- duce drones which of course derive their charac
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