Gleanings in bee culture . e bees very likely onlyfollow in this their natural instinct, tryingto get as big a force of workers as possiblefor the autumn-flow. But it remains anobjectionable habit all the same, which,however, may possibly be outbred. The buckwheat-flow having failed us lastyear I had a striking instance of the supe-riority of the Italians. The one colony Ihave of them, altho not very strong inspring, gave me over 60 pounds of extract-ed honey by July 15, while my best colonyof blacks (and one which, in the early partof May, had been judged a magnificentstock by one of our well
Gleanings in bee culture . e bees very likely onlyfollow in this their natural instinct, tryingto get as big a force of workers as possiblefor the autumn-flow. But it remains anobjectionable habit all the same, which,however, may possibly be outbred. The buckwheat-flow having failed us lastyear I had a striking instance of the supe-riority of the Italians. The one colony Ihave of them, altho not very strong inspring, gave me over 60 pounds of extract-ed honey by July 15, while my best colonyof blacks (and one which, in the early partof May, had been judged a magnificentstock by one of our well-known practicalbeemen, Mr. R. Tukker, see Gleanings forOctober, 1908), gave me only 15 sections,most of which were only partly filled. To be fair I must say that, when orderingthis colony from Italy, I paid somethingextra to get a superior queen. The colonyhas never swarmed; and, altho always hav-ing done better than my blacks, the differ-ence has never been so glaring as this yeai,buckwheat seldom leaving us in the lurch. In Holland a mouth bee-smoker is frequently used,which leaves both hands free for handling the frames. altogether. But I hardly need to say that,at present, all my colonies of blacks havebeen provided with a queen reared frombrood of this Italian stock. I have one colony of Carniolans. I havehad these bees for some years, but I do notlike them. They stop work a couple ofhours sooner in the day than either blacksor Italians, and they dont make up for thisby rising any earlier. I cannot complainabout their excessive swarming, as none ofmy colonies of Carniolans ever swarmedmore than once in a season, and last yearthey did not swarm at all. With me theydont excel in honey-gathering, and have notproven themselves superior to the blacks inthis resi^ect. 1 consider them a lazy stiainof bees. Soest, Holland. SOME OF THE NEEDS OF THE PORTO RICAN BEEKEEPER BY RAFAEL VIDAL Porto Rican beekeeping suffers from ageneral lack of knowledge of up-to-datemethods. No fault ca
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