. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 246 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [November, "I never saw^ the honey bee (neither dent one time a yellow drone, the black nor yellow) at the same time other time a black. Some of the with the stingless, on the same tree.' workers of this queen are black, and Yet I have seen them there at other some yellow; that may be the cause times. One could infer from that of her mismating. Somehow I sup- that they are enemies, with the odds pose it's hard to get pure stock, in favor of the stingless bee. That About the laziness of bees I take would say domest
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. 246 THE AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER. [November, "I never saw^ the honey bee (neither dent one time a yellow drone, the black nor yellow) at the same time other time a black. Some of the with the stingless, on the same tree.' workers of this queen are black, and Yet I have seen them there at other some yellow; that may be the cause times. One could infer from that of her mismating. Somehow I sup- that they are enemies, with the odds pose it's hard to get pure stock, in favor of the stingless bee. That About the laziness of bees I take would say domestication, even if sides with the lazy party, with the possible, would be of doubtful value, exception that a bee out for honey I have a queen, daughter of an im- is anything but lazy; that is, as far ported Italian queen, supposed to be as my observation goes, pure, that has black and yellow I have a metal comb foundation drones emerging at the same time, press which I term a nuisance. I as I have seen by cutting out drone suppose in a cooler climate it might comb. work better. One defect of it is also As I understand, the theory goes the depth of the cell walls and the that mating has no influence on the sharp edges which form the cell bot- drone progeny. If this is true, then tom. This press is from the original T must believe the mother was mis- Rietsche factory. It does not pay mated or some kind of a mongrel, to make foundations, not even here Other daughters of the imported one where a pound of foundation from have yellow drones, or is this proba- the north costs 75 cents, about 8 bly a support of the new theory of sheets Langstroth size to the pound, repeated mating of queens by acci- Joseph Transporting Bees in the Caucasian Mountains. A Difficult Descent. HONEY FROM COTTON BLOOM. L. B. SMITH. IT HAS always been a surprise to the writer to see how many practical apiarists there really were that had no knowledge of what their surplus honey was gathered from; and s
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