. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 67. Kvery bee-keeper who has had experience with sf'eral strains of bees knows that some are far siip' rior to othersâthat there is scrub stock among lees, just as there are scrub horses, cat- tle, she p and poultry. Let 11 e give my own experience: Years ago, while living at Rogersville, I madf a specialty of rearing queens for sale. Before engaging in this work, I bought queens, and Italianized, not only my own bees, but all within three miles of mj- apiary. In buying those queens I think I patronized nearly every breeder in th
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 67. Kvery bee-keeper who has had experience with sf'eral strains of bees knows that some are far siip' rior to othersâthat there is scrub stock among lees, just as there are scrub horses, cat- tle, she p and poultry. Let 11 e give my own experience: Years ago, while living at Rogersville, I madf a specialty of rearing queens for sale. Before engaging in this work, I bought queens, and Italianized, not only my own bees, but all within three miles of mj- apiary. In buying those queens I think I patronized nearly every breeder in the United States; and, even in those years of inexperience, I was not long in noting the great difference in the different strains of bees. The queens from one particular breeder produced bees that de- lighted me greatly. They were just plain, dark, three-banded Italiani^, but, as workers, I have never seen them equaled. They seemed posses- sed of a steady, quiet determination that enabled them to lay up surplus ahead of the others. Easier bees to handle I have never seen. Their honey was capped with a snowy whiteness rivaling that of the blacks. In addition, they were hard\'. If any bees came through the win- ter, it was colonies of this strain. They came as near lieing ideal bees as any I have ever posses- sed. -â Ml this was more than twenty years ago; but, several times since, I have bought queens of this breeder, and I always found this strain of bees of those same good qualitiesâ industry', gentleness, hardiness and a disposition tocap their honey white. I frequently corres- ponded with this breeder, and with those who had Iwught queens of him. and, finallj-, I became thoroughly convineed that he had a strain of l)ecs far superior to the general run of stock. Whether this superiority results from length of tongue, about which there has been so much talk the past year, I do not know, but I do know thit no f)ees have been found with greater tongue-length. This
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