. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered at the Post-Office at Clilcago as Becond-Clasa Mall-Matter.) Published Weekly at $ a Year, by George W. York & Ci>., tl« W. Jackson Blvd. GEOKGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, JUNE 6,1907 VoL XLVn—No, 23. !diforial vNoi Commeiifs Improvement of Bee-Stock Considerable has been said in these col- umns in this regard, and more is likely to be said so long as the need is so urgent. Re- enforcement of the views given may be found in an earnest article in the British Bee Jour- nal, not written by any radical hot-head, but by that canny S
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. (Entered at the Post-Office at Clilcago as Becond-Clasa Mall-Matter.) Published Weekly at $ a Year, by George W. York & Ci>., tl« W. Jackson Blvd. GEOKGE W. YORK, Editor CHICAGO, ILL,, JUNE 6,1907 VoL XLVn—No, 23. !diforial vNoi Commeiifs Improvement of Bee-Stock Considerable has been said in these col- umns in this regard, and more is likely to be said so long as the need is so urgent. Re- enforcement of the views given may be found in an earnest article in the British Bee Jour- nal, not written by any radical hot-head, but by that canny Scotchman, D. M. Macdonald. His closing paragraph contains the following summing up: Now this I say without fear of contradic- tion : While we have men who rear so few queens that they have to keep customers waiting we shall never have selection ! Every queen of every batch goes out, no matter what defects she may possess, if they are not over-patent. That it may not be supposed that I am a voice " crying in the wilderness " on this subject, I should like to quote a few authorities showing that improvement is urgently desired by others: Mr. McEvoy, of Canada, says: "Ninety percent of the queens on the American Con- tinent want killing," Mr. Green considers " too much of our breeding has been done haphazard, and with- out any intelligent direction. My own ex- perience with superior stock has been very ; Mr. SchoU's opinion regarding our queens is: " The best of them is none too good. Too little attention is given this subject, and if more were given better strains would be found than the run-down strains that are not yielding the profit that could be ; Mr, Hutchinson's opinion is that "well- directed efforts at improving stock will prove the most profitable of any which a bee-keeper can pursue. The wonder is that it is so greatly ; The American Bee Journal has again and again quite recently devo
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