. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 114 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. or extracted honey. If I were producing extracted honey aUogether I think I would select the darker Italian, or those produced from queens reared from an im- ported mother, allowing these queens to mate with whatever drones there were about the apiary, * â ⢠whether from Ital- ians, hybrids, or black stock. If I were working for comb honey exclusively, then I would ])rocure a good queen of the gold- en variet}-, rearing all queens from her, and allow them to mate with any drones they might chance to meet. * â¢â¢â Such di- re
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 114 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. or extracted honey. If I were producing extracted honey aUogether I think I would select the darker Italian, or those produced from queens reared from an im- ported mother, allowing these queens to mate with whatever drones there were about the apiary, * â ⢠whether from Ital- ians, hybrids, or black stock. If I were working for comb honey exclusively, then I would ])rocure a good queen of the gold- en variet}-, rearing all queens from her, and allow them to mate with any drones they might chance to meet. * â¢â¢â Such di- rect cross always gives the greatest vigor. * * All my experience goes to prove that thoroughbred golden Italian queens, ma- ted to drones of either black or hybrid stock give bees equal to the very best for comb-honey purposes. * """ I should pre- fe.' not to have these queens meet drones from young queens reared from imported mothers â¢â "â¢â " for the reason that, as a rule, workers having much imported blood in them do not cap their honey nearly so nice and captivating to the eye as do those having more of the golden, hybrid or (rerman blood in them. To sum up I would sa}-, first have your queens mate with drones as distantly re- lated to your queens as possible; second, use queens as closely relaied to imported Italian stock as possible where working for extracted honey, for there are no bees in the world, in my opinion, that excel those onegeneration from imported stock, for honey-gathering. Third, where white capping of combs becomes one of the great objects to work for â " * then choose the golden Italians. The editor of the American Bee-Keep- er comments, in part, by saying:â We became convinced years ago that the bee-keeper who regarded color as an in- dex of honey-gathering qualities, was liable to disappointment, and each suc- ceeding year has tended to confirn'. the validity of our claim. * * * We have no reason to doubt
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