. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Entered at the Postoffice, Fort Pierce, Fla., as second-class mail matter. Vol. XVII. NOVEMBER, 1907. No. II. PROFITABLE MEETING AT WORCESTER, MASS. AMONG THE especially good ad- dresses at the recent Worcester meeting was that of Mr. Jeffrey, on "Inbreeding, its Advantages and its ; Mr. J. is one of those in- dependent sort of thinkers' who does not take much stock in things until he proves it for himself. Also he is al- ways looking for the unexpected and the seemingly impossible. The old ruts he has no use for. But he does not
. The American bee keeper. Bee culture; Honey. Entered at the Postoffice, Fort Pierce, Fla., as second-class mail matter. Vol. XVII. NOVEMBER, 1907. No. II. PROFITABLE MEETING AT WORCESTER, MASS. AMONG THE especially good ad- dresses at the recent Worcester meeting was that of Mr. Jeffrey, on "Inbreeding, its Advantages and its ; Mr. J. is one of those in- dependent sort of thinkers' who does not take much stock in things until he proves it for himself. Also he is al- ways looking for the unexpected and the seemingly impossible. The old ruts he has no use for. But he does not fail to learn from others when he can, even though he feels that he must test and prove their conclusions for himself. Well past middle life, short in stature and unpretentious in manner, he startles one by his energy and vigor. With a full, strong voice and a delivery like a series of cannon shots he held his hearers from start to finish. The substance of what he had to say was as follows: The breeding together of closely related animals is good or bad in accordance with the proportions of good or bad in the individuals used. If weak, sickly or degenerate stock is used, the result will be degenerate off- spring, but if the parent stock is strong the offspring will be also. In support of this contention he cites the Devon cattle and the American Merino sheep. Then he told how he had followed the plan with his bees for over seventeen years, resulting in the constant improve- ment of his stock. Then having im- bibed the notion that close breeding was unsafe he introduced new blood and upset the result of all his labors. Not that the resulting offspring were not strong, but that the individuals varied so that there was no uniformity in the colonies or in the work they did. Next, he proceeded to show how to select and breed bees. A colony, the offspring of some certain queen, show more desirable traits than do other colonies, hence we would perpetuate it if possible. But how? The
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