. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 22 THE AMERICAN BEE For the American Bee Journal. Yellow and Leather-Colored Bees. CHAS. DADANT. Ill the Bee Journal tor Nov. 23, Mr. Demaree is yet arguing liis favor- ite plea in favor of tlie yellow bee. The lirst Italian queen that I intro- duced in my apiary was yellow to the tip of her abdomen. Her workers were as yellow as could be desired. This queen was the daugliter of a queen imported from the apiary of the celebrated German, Dzierzon, strain of bees will never be excelled as to color; Dr. Dzierzon, for more than 20 years p
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 22 THE AMERICAN BEE For the American Bee Journal. Yellow and Leather-Colored Bees. CHAS. DADANT. Ill the Bee Journal tor Nov. 23, Mr. Demaree is yet arguing liis favor- ite plea in favor of tlie yellow bee. The lirst Italian queen that I intro- duced in my apiary was yellow to the tip of her abdomen. Her workers were as yellow as could be desired. This queen was the daugliter of a queen imported from the apiary of the celebrated German, Dzierzon, strain of bees will never be excelled as to color; Dr. Dzierzon, for more than 20 years previous, having bred in view of improvement in color. The progeny of tliis queen produced workers wliich had, most of them, the three yellow bands perfectly visible; most of their colonies had not a single black bee. Yet these workers were but half Italian, tor, at that time, there was not another Italian queen within fifty miles of Hamilton, and, as I had worried my colony by rearing queens, I had not a single drone, and my young queens had all mated with black drones. The following year I received three queens from Italy. Of course, I was lixr from being satisfied with these queens. They were dark, and their progeny was also darker even than the ill-mated queens. Then I began to think that the color was not a sure test of purity, and, af- ter a careful study, I proclaimed that the quietness of the bees on the combs, when they are taken out of the hives, is the surest test; this quietness being in direct ratio with the puiity of the Italian bees. Several bee-keepers pretend that the Italian bee is not a pure race ; oth- ers, that it is the result of a mixture of Cyprian and black bees. If such be the case, let me ask, how is it that such an union has produced, in the offspring, a behavior so different from that of both the parents V The Cyprian queens, when you open their hives, flee out of sight; their workers are disturbed and run every- where, ready to fight. The black quee
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