. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 508 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL [Dec. 23, 1909. XI8T OF THE MATING DAYS AT RIPPLE COURT APIARY IN 1909 AFTER JULY 5, WITH THE COLOUR RESULTS FROM THE 123 TESTED QUEENS THAT APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN MATED ON THESE DAYS. ft > a cu *= w It Approximate pro- portion of Golden- Coloured and Inter- mediate-Coloured Workers Produced. V â « s O O § (3 O o a>, 28 ,, 29 â 31 >, 4 » 5 â 6 , 7 8 & 9 â 11 â 12 â 13 â 14 ,, 15 ,. IV 28 29 541« 1W. i 25% 100 \ (in FR weather) 71 to 39 65% (in R weather) 82 to 118 |(in FR w°eather)
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. 508 THE BRITISH BEE JOURNAL [Dec. 23, 1909. XI8T OF THE MATING DAYS AT RIPPLE COURT APIARY IN 1909 AFTER JULY 5, WITH THE COLOUR RESULTS FROM THE 123 TESTED QUEENS THAT APPEARED TO HAVE BEEN MATED ON THESE DAYS. ft > a cu *= w It Approximate pro- portion of Golden- Coloured and Inter- mediate-Coloured Workers Produced. V â « s O O § (3 O o a>, 28 ,, 29 â 31 >, 4 » 5 â 6 , 7 8 & 9 â 11 â 12 â 13 â 14 ,, 15 ,. IV 28 29 541« 1W. i 25% 100 \ (in FR weather) 71 to 39 65% (in R weather) 82 to 118 |(in FR w°eather) 158 t. ft?/ 72% 06 \ (in R weather) 63 to 97 ) 39% \.(in FR weather) 85 to 85 ( 50% ~\ (in F weather) R \ 15 Queens, evi-~] R I dently mated R | on these days, | R y commenced ' R I laying on R | various dates J in September. _, 140 t"10 ((in R wLher) J? = Free mating weather. FR = Less free mating weather. R = Restricted mating weather. All the queens, except two, were bred from parentages producing only golden- coloured workers. Ninety-three of the queens were grand-daughters of "V" and twenty-eight were grand-daughters of " A " (see page 482). The conditions as re- gards isolation and drone-breeding did not differ materially from those in 1908. All -the drones were bred from golden-coloured queens, and roughly about 80 per cent, of them from queens producing only golden- fcoloured workers. The proportion of goldens to inter- mediates produced by each union could only be approximately estimated; more- over, it seemed to vary a little. Most of the 1908 unions producing golden majori- ties were re-tested by a more accurate method in June, 1909; it was then found -that several of the 8 to 2 were nearer 7 to 3 or 2 to 1. The result from No. 55 (1908) was unique; probably a second test- ing would have shown it to be all goldens or all intermediates. It may be observed here that every year a few of the golden- coloured queens bred from pare
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