. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. BEES. .55 BEES. find them little different from common Ital- ians. The fringe, or down, that appears on the rings of the abdomen of young bees is a trifle whiter than usual, yet no one would observe it unless attention were called to it. The queens are very yellow, while the work- ers, as honey-gatherers, are decidedly inferi- or, even in the second generation: and when we select light-colored bees or queens for several successive ge
. The ABC and XYZ of bee culture; a cyclopedia of everything pertaining to the care of the honey-bee; bees, hives, honey, implements, honey-plants, etc. ... Bees. BEES. .55 BEES. find them little different from common Ital- ians. The fringe, or down, that appears on the rings of the abdomen of young bees is a trifle whiter than usual, yet no one would observe it unless attention were called to it. The queens are very yellow, while the work- ers, as honey-gatherers, are decidedly inferi- or, even in the second generation: and when we select light-colored bees or queens for several successive generations, unless care- ful we develop only a worker progeny lack- ing ability as honey-gatherers and endur- ance. By selection we can get almost any thing we want, and that quite speedily with bees; for we can produce several genera- tions in a single season if need be. EASTERN RACES OF BEES. Cyprians, Holy-Lands, or Syrians, are mentioned later under the head of Ital- ians. Of other Eastern races I can do no better than to quote what ^Ir. Frank Ben- ton, formerly Apicultural Expert of the U. S. Department of Agriculture, has said of them in a special bulletin issued by the De- partment, entitled " Honey-bee," containing 118 pages. Mr. Benton spent some months in the jungles of India, in search of new bees. Eor this reason, if for no other, he is able to give us authoritative information. From the bulletin above mentioned we make the following extracts: THE COMMON EAST-INDIAN HONEY-BEE. {Apis Indica. Fab.) The common bee of Southern Asia is kept in very limited numbers and with a smaU degree of profit in earthen jars and sections of hollow trees in portions of the British and Dutch East Indies. Thej- are also found wild, and build when in this state in hollow trees and in rock-clefts. Their combs are composed of hexagonal wax cells, and are arranged parallel to. FIG. I.— WORKER-CELLS OF COMMON EAST-INDIAN HONEY-BEE (APIS INDICA), NATURAL SIZE. each other like those
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