. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. British. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranoeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 302. Vol. XVI.] APRIL 5, 1888. [Published Weekly.] (&hitaxhlt Sottas, tit. IN-AND-IN BREEDING. ' To breed from closely related animal of the same stock.'— Webster. Our valued correspondent, Mr. W, 15. Webster,favoured us recently (pp. :j;J, 48, 61) with a series of articles op ' Consanguinity,' the gist of his argument being, that it is detrimental to the interests of the bee-keepers whose object is to ' make
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. British. Communications to the Editor to be addressed ' Stranoeways' Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 302. Vol. XVI.] APRIL 5, 1888. [Published Weekly.] (&hitaxhlt Sottas, tit. IN-AND-IN BREEDING. ' To breed from closely related animal of the same stock.'— Webster. Our valued correspondent, Mr. W, 15. Webster,favoured us recently (pp. :j;J, 48, 61) with a series of articles op ' Consanguinity,' the gist of his argument being, that it is detrimental to the interests of the bee-keepers whose object is to ' make his bees pay,' if ho force (or allow) them to continue inter-breeding in near relationship, and that to prevent as much as possible this consanguinity it is advisable to import (not necessarily from abroad) new blood into the apiary occasionally—Cela va sans dire. Truly our Journal has been read to little purpose these many years if it has now become necessary to hammer this fact to British bee-keepers of 1888. It is well said that ' Nature abhors self-fertilisation,' and she takes sure steps to prevent it all through the range of animated things, from the bacterium to the elephant, from the jelly-fish to the oak. In the botanical world we are astounded at the devices made use of by the plant, under Providence, to prevent self-fertilisation, or any reasonable approach to consanguinity ; and as our honey-bee is perhaps of all agents the most-used cross- fertilising instrument, surely bee-keepers ought to be the last to deny her the benefits of a system by which she confers good upon so many varieties of beautiful and useful plants—benefits palpable to every thinking mind. Even atheists admit the operation of great fundamental laws which pervade the whole of the animal and vege- table kingdoms, one of which is that of which we are speaking, e. g., that in-and-in breeding is deleterious, and cross-breeding beneficial, if we seek for the development of higher powers. Wh
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