. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 11 By sorting- out the yellowish queens of the first cross, letting them mate with Italian drones, then waiting until their workers come out full grown, then sorting again, and no one can tell how many queens were raised from that mismated black queen and sorted out. At that time, remember, I had the only hive of Italian bees known within 35 miles. That was Bridgeport, Conn. Two other hives had been in Litchfield county, but had been handled to death, so they did not live through the season. Under those cir- cumstances I was not g
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 11 By sorting- out the yellowish queens of the first cross, letting them mate with Italian drones, then waiting until their workers come out full grown, then sorting again, and no one can tell how many queens were raised from that mismated black queen and sorted out. At that time, remember, I had the only hive of Italian bees known within 35 miles. That was Bridgeport, Conn. Two other hives had been in Litchfield county, but had been handled to death, so they did not live through the season. Under those cir- cumstances I was not guessing at results because I did find out to the certainty for three years just how far off the black queens did meet with the Italian drones. I had the sure proof that black queens meeting Italian drones produced good working bees, and I also learned, as did lots of others, that the black drone mating can, does and will produce ugliness to calculate upon. In that second and third Ital- ian drone mating starting with queens from that Italian mated, Amos Alitchel queen, I got hives of bees showing nearly all of the workers evenly striped with yellow bands. Not leather, ochre, mahogany or tan color, but clear bright yel- low color banded bees. From that crossing I obtained the first yellow workers or queens that i ever saw. And in 1876 and '17 I was selling plenty of yellow queens and also the queens to produce the real yel- low worker bees, (there are people living that know of them), but from Italian drones on the black queen I accident- ally hit a good-natured cross. vSome others tried the black drone as in the Dr. Bonney dia- gram, and they got ugliness where I obtained good nature in my accidental catch on to the cross breeding. See? I have for years noticed plainly that the Italian drone mated to other varieties would be as a rule very satisfactorily good, but on the reverse they were ugly enough. And drones raised from the queens of the third or fourth gen- eration of stoc
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