. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. VOL. XXIII. FLINT. MICHIGAN, JULY 1, 1910. NO. 7 Greatly Increasing the Honey Crop by Selection in Breeding. GEO. B. T N writing this -^ article, it is not to advertise queens for sale; as 1 am a honey producer, and can make more money produc- ing honey. It is written simply to help the bee keeping world to improve its bees, and to produce from one-third to double the honey that it is now producing. I know this can be done, as 1 have done it. My b
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. A MONTHLY JOURNAL Devoted to the Interests of Honey Producers W. Z. HUTCHINSON, Editor and Publisher. VOL. XXIII. FLINT. MICHIGAN, JULY 1, 1910. NO. 7 Greatly Increasing the Honey Crop by Selection in Breeding. GEO. B. T N writing this -^ article, it is not to advertise queens for sale; as 1 am a honey producer, and can make more money produc- ing honey. It is written simply to help the bee keeping world to improve its bees, and to produce from one-third to double the honey that it is now producing. I know this can be done, as 1 have done it. My best breeding queens are not for sale at any price. I have sold some queens for ten dollars, taking them out of their colonies before the honey flow, and I lost money every time; for these colonies would make me ten dollars' worth of honey, even in a poor season, and some seasons three times that. 1 cannot afford to rear queens for sale—seasons are too short and unreliable. Let us compare the breeding of bees to the way they are breeding animals and poultry. Do these successful breed- ers use any old male that they may have, or any female, as well? I think you will find them selecting and breeding from the best. I wish to say that I have just a fair location. The soil is mostly sandy, with clover, and some basswood, no buck- wheat, a little goldenrod, so you can see, you who are favored with a first-class location, that you can easily get larger yields than I could possibly get. DARK ITALIANS IN THE LEAD. It may be interesting to the readers of the Review to know of my experiments, and the results that led to my selection of the dark, leather-colored Italian bees. I know there are yet many good bee keepers who said, and who still say, that the hybrid is as good, or even better, than the pure Italian. 1 bred the hybrid Italian-black, and the Carniolan-ltalian crosses for several years, and will admit that I had some wonderful colonies of these crosses; but, after breeding them
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