. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 5, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 567 ones, and no bees about thera. I could look into the hives with bees in without smoke or veil, leave the top off, and other bees would not go about thera. What was the mat- ter? Were they tired, ashamed of themselves, or disgusted with the size of the job? Even now (20 days after) they won't smell around the old, robbed boxes left in the yard—I think because the weather is so dry and hot. There hasn't been a blossom of any kind for nearly two months. The hives in the old apiary are the same as in the new one—arr
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. Sept. 5, 1901. AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL 567 ones, and no bees about thera. I could look into the hives with bees in without smoke or veil, leave the top off, and other bees would not go about thera. What was the mat- ter? Were they tired, ashamed of themselves, or disgusted with the size of the job? Even now (20 days after) they won't smell around the old, robbed boxes left in the yard—I think because the weather is so dry and hot. There hasn't been a blossom of any kind for nearly two months. The hives in the old apiary are the same as in the new one—arranged in the same way, two rows running north and south, fronting east and west, with the honey-house at the north end of the rows, with a clean, open ground south and east of thera ; but no combs melted that I know of. Now will G. M. Doolittle, Dr. C. C. Miller, Prof. Cook, or any others, tell me if the result would have been differ- ent had the bees in the new yard been supplied with water July 6 ? It was not the first time they had carried water from the old apiary ; they knew where it was. I think the surroundings had more to do with it than the water. Uvalde Co., Tex., July 27. The In-breeding of Bees. BY GEO. SHIBKR. NOTICING the editorial on page 355 on the subject of in-breeding, and also having read in the other bee- papers what has been printed on the same subject, prompts me to add a word on the subject. I have wondered in the years past, since I have been interested in bees, that it has never received consideration by the leading queen-breeders, that is, I suppose it has not, for I have never read anything of it until lately. For instance, a leading queen-breeder advertised, a year or so ago, that his drones were not akin to his queen- mothers ; that new, selected stock was added from time to time to furnish drones. You see, he was constantly select- ing choice queen-mothers, and selecting choice drone- mothers, but not akin. A breeder can make some progress in
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