. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. t>r xv >tx >i^ >i^ >V- >»;: >fe >t!t^ >^ >!it!^ >t/. >itx xV xv xtx xv xv ^y jt«i:^ OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS. Toronto Island—Queen-Rearing and Mating—Other Inter- esting Apiarian Matters. BY JOHN M'ARTHUR. (Continued from page G89.) In 1890, queen-rearing was commenced on the island, and has been carried on' in a small way, experimenting and observing closely the eifects of in-breeding, also the effects of drones from laying workers, which will be referred to further on. Had I known the labor and expense, and at
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. t>r xv >tx >i^ >i^ >V- >»;: >fe >t!t^ >^ >!it!^ >t/. >itx xV xv xtx xv xv ^y jt«i:^ OBSERVATIONS AND EXPERIMENTS. Toronto Island—Queen-Rearing and Mating—Other Inter- esting Apiarian Matters. BY JOHN M'ARTHUR. (Continued from page G89.) In 1890, queen-rearing was commenced on the island, and has been carried on' in a small way, experimenting and observing closely the eifects of in-breeding, also the effects of drones from laying workers, which will be referred to further on. Had I known the labor and expense, and attending to three apiaries besides, single- handed, I would have let the business of queen-rearing drop, except what was wanted in my own yards. I imported some breeders, and can conscientiously say, that if such be a fair sample of our breeders that thousands are reared from, it will be a long, long time before much improvement takes place in our race of bees. I am afraid we are be- ing gulled in this queen-business. No doubt they can be reared in great numbers but this will cease, because there is a great amount of unnatural or mechanical work about the business. We have only to look at the queens—they are shrivelled, narrow, tapering bits of things. They don't lay worth a rap, and are short-lived. They are not the fine, long, broad, deep-bodied and curved-back queens we find pro- duced under natural conditions—ones that last four or five years. These are the sort that I want to purchase and produce. Like produces like. Fine, large queens will produce fine, large bees and drones, and beauty combined. " A thing of beauty is a joy forever," I think I hear some one say. " Handsome is that handsome ; You can get that, too. Never sacrifice the useful to establish the beautiful. Enough has been said and done on this line to convince me that our isolation is most complete, and the nearest approach to control the mating of our queens has been reached
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