. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 776 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. there is nothing particularly strange or wrong about it; nevertheless, it works evil and that continually. This false notion of " cheap traffic," is at the bottom of all shoddy business. I have kept a small queen-rearing departinent to my apiary for several years p;ist to supply my own apiary, with choice stock and for experiment, and in this way I have gained quite an experience in queen-rearing. Tlie breeder should make it an undeviating rule to reject at the start all queens which are abnormal in size, color
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 776 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. there is nothing particularly strange or wrong about it; nevertheless, it works evil and that continually. This false notion of " cheap traffic," is at the bottom of all shoddy business. I have kept a small queen-rearing departinent to my apiary for several years p;ist to supply my own apiary, with choice stock and for experiment, and in this way I have gained quite an experience in queen-rearing. Tlie breeder should make it an undeviating rule to reject at the start all queens which are abnormal in size, color or form. This I believe to be essential to scientitic queen breeding. This rule will apply to the scientiQc breeding of all animals, but more particularly to queen bi-eeding, because the queen is a creature of "; Were I rearing queens for the market, I would pursue this course with fidelity, and would have no hesitation to sell such selected queens to suit custom- ers, reducing the price when sold, be- fore they were tested as to their mating. That the reader may have a glimpse at the inside of the dollar queen busi- ness, I quote from the catalogue of one of our largest dealers in cheap as well as dear queens. And, by the way, a gentleman who is as square as a brick in his dealings, and hence has nothing to conceal as to his manner of doing business. Here it is, verbatim ct lileratini : "Dollar Queens. — The dollar queens are always taken just as they come, and are nh-cr culled. Customers often ask us to pick out a large yellow one for them. My friends, who would tlien have the small (lark ones ? We can't do it for anybody, not even the Queen of England. If you want iis to pick,; [Italics mine.] The above speaks a whole volume for the "true inwardness" of the shoddy dollar queen business. The dollar queen man will not " pick " for anybody, not even the Queen of Eng- land, but he will pick for his dear,
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