. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, 1909. 333 American "Bee Joarnal j niolans stored the most, with the Ital- ians second, they being slightly ahead of the blacks. " There," some one who worships the Italians exclaims, "that proves that the Italians have longer ; But as to how they will ex- plain the position of the Carniolans, will be left for us to guess at. Let me here digress to say that the Carniolan race of bees has been libeled beyond measure by certain breeders of Italians, without any just reason what- ever. In my humble opinion, the Ca
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. October, 1909. 333 American "Bee Joarnal j niolans stored the most, with the Ital- ians second, they being slightly ahead of the blacks. " There," some one who worships the Italians exclaims, "that proves that the Italians have longer ; But as to how they will ex- plain the position of the Carniolans, will be left for us to guess at. Let me here digress to say that the Carniolan race of bees has been libeled beyond measure by certain breeders of Italians, without any just reason what- ever. In my humble opinion, the Car- niolans stored more from the red clover than did either the blacks or Italians, simply because they were ever so much more populous than the others. The Italians stored a little more than the blacks because they will work better in a poor flow than will the native bees. No doubt it will be admitted by all who have tried the dif- ferent races, that in a heavy flow of honey the blacks will store just as much as will other races, but when nectar is scarce, thev are more easilv discouraged, and lack the " sticktoitive- ness " of the other races. This unfortunate trait explains, to me at least, why they stored a little less than did the Italians, and I do not for a moment believe that the length of tongue had anything to do. Not that I would try to discourage research along the line of improve- ment in bees for the purpose of work- ing on red clover, or for the propaga- tion of any other valuable traits in our bees, but one thing is certain that no change of any account is going to be made in a few years, let alone for a few months, as a whole lot of queen- breeders tried to make believe was the case only a very few years ago. After all is said and done, it seems more than possible that more headway would be made in experimenting along the line of producing red clover with shorter tubes, than in an effort to get bees with longer tongues; but up to the present no Burbank
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