. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A Happy New Year to all Our Readers,. 41st YEAR. CHICAGO, ELL, DECEMBER 26,1901, No. 52. i * Editorial. ^ I The Annual Index will be found in this issue of the American Bee Journal. As many readers preserve everj- number, the index will be found a very valuable thing. In tact, if there were nothing else in this copy but the index, it would still be worth a good deal, as it shows the wide range of apiarian subjects treated in a single year. Breeding from the Best has been the motto for so long a time, that when F. B. Simpson advocated in the Bee-Keeper
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. A Happy New Year to all Our Readers,. 41st YEAR. CHICAGO, ELL, DECEMBER 26,1901, No. 52. i * Editorial. ^ I The Annual Index will be found in this issue of the American Bee Journal. As many readers preserve everj- number, the index will be found a very valuable thing. In tact, if there were nothing else in this copy but the index, it would still be worth a good deal, as it shows the wide range of apiarian subjects treated in a single year. Breeding from the Best has been the motto for so long a time, that when F. B. Simpson advocated in the Bee-Keepers' Re- view that a queen of very exceptional quali- ties being in the nature of a freak could not be relied upon to reproduce herself, therefore it was better to breed from a queen whose progeny were only a little above the average as to results, but showing greater constancy in her royal progeny—when Mr. Simpson advocated this doctrine, it seemed a little like the explosion of a bomb-shell. No one has proved that Mr. Simpson's position is wrong, and yet the fact remains that good results have been obtained—or at least seem to have been obtained—by following the old rule, to breed from the best. Mr. Doolittle says in Gleanings in Bee-Cul- ture that he has followed that rule for 30 years—breeding always from the queen that gave workers most valuable in bringing in nectar from the fields, rather than from those of the most uniform markings or purity, mentioning especially one remarkable freak from which he reared nearly all of his queens as long as she lived. Not only has his aver- age yield per colony increased, but the uni- formity of yield from his colonies has been constantly on the increase. Comb Honey by the Case.—On another page, Mr. D. W. Working, the secretary of the Colorado Bee-Keepers' Association, has a reply to both the recent article by K. A. Bur- nett & Co. and our editorial on the same subject. We fail to see how Mr. Working can expect to convince a
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