. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. ITALIAN BEE. and the bee moth with great energy. They are so gentle that, after a little experience, any one can handle them without fear of being stung. They breed faster, and, being larger than the common or German variety, have longer tongues, which enable them to reacli to the honey deposit of certain flowers not reached by the latter; they will, therefore, gather much more honey during the season than the common variety. J\Ir. W. S. Blaisdell, of Randolpli, ^'
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. ITALIAN BEE. and the bee moth with great energy. They are so gentle that, after a little experience, any one can handle them without fear of being stung. They breed faster, and, being larger than the common or German variety, have longer tongues, which enable them to reacli to the honey deposit of certain flowers not reached by the latter; they will, therefore, gather much more honey during the season than the common variety. J\Ir. W. S. Blaisdell, of Randolpli, ^'t., a suc- cessful and extensive apiarist for many years, says: "The LaHan bee has become very generally known, and the leading apiarists have pronounced very emphatically as to its superiority over the common variety. These | bees adhere with great tenacity to their combs, and go with much reluctance into the surplus boxes, especially when these boxes are not at the nearest possible point to their brood. In this respect they are unlike the blacks, and those who have been successful with the latter are not always careful to note this disinclina- tion of the Italian, and, careless of what their instinct demands, fail to reap the benefits of their superior ; Tlie Cyprian variety, from the island of Cjrprus, and the Syrian, from tlie mountains of Lebanon, resemble the Italian very closely, being marked quite dis- tinctly with the yellow bands. They differ from the Italian in disposition, especially the Cyprian, being of strong, nervous tempera- ment, and apt to be very combative in disposition when disturbed. They are, however, more prolific in late fall breeding than the German or Italian, furnishing a stronger colony of young bees to endure tho winter. They have a swifter flight and longer tongues than tho German or common black variety, and also seek the surplus boxes fully as readily as the latter. Hybrid bees are apt to be cross and vicious in disposition.
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