. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 50 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW Mendelism—A Reply to Mr. Snyder. THE DOCTOR SUPPORTS HIS FIRST POSITION.—SAYS WE CAN MAKE A THOUSAND COLONIES OF BEES ANYTHING WE CARE TO, SIMPLY BY KILLING OFF THE DRONES NOT WANTED. By DR. A. F. BONNEY, Buck Grove, la. ^V EFERRINO to Mr. Snyder's article in the Review for ^{^ December, page 443, his 6D's,and 6T's will not breed true, if I understand the Mendelian scheme, for one has to go to the fourth or fifth generation to get this result when we have ten T's and six D's. I think Mr. Darbishire, in "Breeding and the Me
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 50 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW Mendelism—A Reply to Mr. Snyder. THE DOCTOR SUPPORTS HIS FIRST POSITION.—SAYS WE CAN MAKE A THOUSAND COLONIES OF BEES ANYTHING WE CARE TO, SIMPLY BY KILLING OFF THE DRONES NOT WANTED. By DR. A. F. BONNEY, Buck Grove, la. ^V EFERRINO to Mr. Snyder's article in the Review for ^{^ December, page 443, his 6D's,and 6T's will not breed true, if I understand the Mendelian scheme, for one has to go to the fourth or fifth generation to get this result when we have ten T's and six D's. I think Mr. Darbishire, in "Breeding and the Mendelian Discovery," will support this contention. However, I dismiss that as wholly irrelevant to the matter in question, the impove- ment of bees, because Mendelism does not seem to apply to the parthenogenetic insects. I will quote Mr. Dar- bishire, who writes me as follows: "1 am much inter- ested in your account of your experiment with bees. The result is a puzzle to me. I am hoping to tackle the bee literature thorough- ly, and if I come across anything which throws light on the subject I will let you ; And yet Mr. Snyder seems to think he has solved the problem at his first attempt! As to Mr. Snyder's diagram on page 444, it is neither }*Ien- delism nor reason. Observe diagram above. As I have mentioned before, the new law of heredity does not apply to parthenogenesis. We can mate our male and female bees but once, which is fatal to investigation. Moreover, his claim that a "BI Hybrid Black Queen mated to a BI Hybrid Black Drone will give out of every four eggs "lA—A pure Italian worker, virgin or drone; "1—A pure black worker, virgin or drone;. Menelfel Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original National Bee-keepers' Association. [Flint, Mich. : s.
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