June 20, 191 1. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, 



397 



jio iiioiv liuiu'v Iluin our sliorter-tdnsjfued 

 lx»e^. otliLT qiuilitioatiuns. of eoiii'sc. beiiiir 

 the smni'. Although Root closes his ailverlise- 

 iiieiit with an '• X. B.,"' saying thai the I'aiik 

 aud lile of begiuners have no use for such 

 nueens, still Ihey will buy theni, and it was 

 this class of bee-keepers that Mr Doolittle 

 was desirous to halt. 



If some enterjirising queen-breeder w'ill get 

 up a non-swarming strain, a greater benetit 

 will lie conferred upon the bee-keeping tra- 

 teruity than tongue-reach. By this improve- 

 ment all of us. from the red clover fields to 

 the orange lilossoms. and from buckwheat to 

 .sage of the West, %vill jump for joy. 



Hurrah for long-tongued queens, for Dr. 

 Miller aud the red clover folks! aud hurrah 

 for l)ees that don't swarm, for " we 'uns !'' 



Dodge Co. (ia. F. M. Creighton. 



Best Honey-Flow in Years. 



Bees are booming on white clover, aud the 

 honey-How is llie best we have had in years. 

 "White clover is literally taking the country, 

 for which I am sorry ( '.). 



Vi'e are in sad need of foul-brood legisla- 

 tion in this part of the State. 



W. T. Stephenson. 



Mas.sacC'o.,Ill.,May 31. 



At Work on Raspberry and Clovers. 



Bees are working ^ery busily i.m rasjilierry. 

 white clover and red clover, both clovers be- 

 ing in bloom now. The prospect for bas.s- 

 wood is not as good as In former years, but 

 the clovers are better. L. G. Bl.iir. 



Grant Co., Wis.. June '.i. 



Bees Will Not Eat Pasteboard. 



Tell Dr. Miller that bees will not eat paste- 

 board in this country, so I lost one of the 

 <iueens he sent me last year. The other one 

 is doing well. 



Bees wintered poorly, but are doing nicely 

 this spring. J. Kexoyek. ' 



Whitman Co.. Wash.. .Tune 1. 



■" Are There Any Queen-Breeders?" 



This is the heading of an article in the Pro- 

 gressive Bee-Keeper, by F. L Thompson, in 

 which he says: 



It is about time that bee-keepers understood 

 that queen-6r<'«to-.v are a different class from 

 <iaeen-rearers. There are plenty of queen- 

 xearers. who will tell you they breed q ueeus 

 by the most approved methods— artificial 

 fups. nurseries, specially prepared colonies, 

 and what not. But rearing is not breeding. 

 Are there really any queen-6/-f«?f)-.\-.'' Itliink 

 there are a few — I really don't know whether 

 there is uim who applies those principles of 

 selective breeding which good stock-ljreeders 



inbreeding. 



This has brought ruin to many an apiary 

 where bees were left entirely to themselves, 

 the bees "running out'' for want of fresh 

 Wood, and yet some of the greatest triumphs 

 of scientific breeding have been through that 

 .same inbreeding. The following from the 

 Rocky Mountain Bee Journal is by F. L. 

 Thompson : 



It is well known that stock-breeders prac- 

 tice inbreeding largely, in order to secure a 

 greater proportion of prepotent individuals, 

 and a higher degree of prepotency, than 

 would be the case by watching for chance 

 cases. But there is a popular idea thai in- 

 breeding is bad. very bad. There is some 

 truth in the popular idea, but also consider- 

 able error. Hence, it will pay to be posted 



Standard Bred (Jueens. 



Acme o( Perfection. 



Not a Hybrid Among Them. 



inPROVED STRAIN QOLDEN ITALIANS. 



World-wide repulalion. 75cts.each; 6 for $4.(H1. 



Long-Tongued 3-Banded Italians 



bred from stock whose tongues measured 25- 

 100 inch. These are the red clover hustlers of 



51.00 each, or 6 for f.^.ml. Safe arrival guaran- 

 teed. FRED W. WUTH & Co. 



Headquarters ft.r Uee-Keepers' Supplies, 

 S.W. Cor. F-ront and Walnut Sts. 

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Write John Y. Calahan, General 

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also on inbreeding; for even now some queen- 

 breeders largely control the drones, and hence 

 could, and perhaps do, practice selective in- 

 breeding; and in the near future it is prob- 

 able that mating in eontinement will be at- 

 tained, whereby the drones will be absolutely 

 controlled. 



Now, the experience of the best authorities 

 is that inbreeding is not, in itself, of any 

 detriment whatever. The instances of vigor- 

 ous animals which have been iubred tor many 

 generations are too numerous for the popular 

 idea to be altogether true, for this reason: :It 

 the two parents have any common tendencies, 

 their offspring will have those tendencies 

 doubled. Of course, this is more liable to 

 happen with related parents than when they 

 are not related. Hence, if any of those com- 

 mon tendencies are bad, they will be approxi- 

 mately twice as bad in the offspring. On the 

 other hand, if they are good, inbreeding lias 

 none but good effects. 



The practical application of this is, that If 

 one wants a fixed and prepotent strain of 

 bees, the breeder who breeds closely is more 

 apt to be able to furnish it than those who do 

 not. always ]jrovided — and this is important — 

 that he is thoroughly ac(|uainted not merely 

 with the details of queen-rearing, but also 

 with the application of the principles of 

 selective breeding. It should be remembered, 

 also, that there are various degrees of in- 

 breediug. To mate parent and offspring has 

 only halt the effect, for good or evil, of mat- 

 ing brother and sister. At present, on the 

 whole, it may be better to avoid stock in bees 

 likely to be inbred, but as soon as queens will 

 be mated iu confinement, the ease will be 

 altered. 



Best Averages from New Colonies. 



A Stray Straw iu Gleanings in Bee-Culture 

 says: 



Sometimes it is said that a beginner ggts a 

 yield of honey that he never after equals, be- 

 cause his first enthusiasm is gone. I believe 

 that's a libel on many of the veterans. A Ijee- 

 keeper may ride his hobby so hard as to kill 

 it, but they don't all do it. Just 40 years ago 

 I took the bee-fever, and the temperature is 

 just as high now as it was then. I'm looking 

 forward to some things 1 want to do with bee's 

 next summer with just as keen a relish as I 

 had 40 years ago. The extra results achieved 

 Ijy a beginner are largely to be credited to the 

 fact that he has a small number of colonies, 

 and so the Ijees have a better harvest. — [i'our 

 last sentence explains it. In the •■ABC" 

 book the statement is made to the effect that 

 the average yield per colony will be much 

 larger in a small aiiiary. remote from any 

 other yard of Ijees. than in larger apiaries. — 

 Editor.] 



Wax-Worms in Pure Wax. 



It has generally Ijeen considered that pure 

 wax, as in foundation, is in no danger of 

 lieing troubled by the wax-moth, at least some 

 jiollen being necessary to support the larv*. 

 (t. M. Doolittle reports in the Progressive Bee- 

 Keeper that he found the work of wax-worms 

 in foundation that had been kept iu a warm 

 place near the roof. 



Sweet Clover Not a Weed. 



The following question and answer appeared 

 in the Wisconsin Farmer : 



Mk. Editor:— Will you please tell me all 

 about sweet clover'.' 1 would like to know 

 whether it is good as a fertilizer or pasture, or 

 whether it is good for nothing. Some tell me it 

 is nothing but a weed. Others tell me it is the 

 same as red clover. 



Ans.— Sweet clover (Melilotus albal is a 

 legume, as are other clovers, and because of 

 this tact exerts a similar effect in the renova- 

 tion of worn-out soils. In the North, generally, 

 it is regarded as a weed. Some States have 

 legislated against it as one of the uo-Kious weeds 

 to be destroyed, along with the Canada and 

 Russian thistles. In the South one or two 

 experiment stations have commended it, both 

 as a foraee-plant aud as a souice of fertility. It 

 very early becomes woody, and loses whatever 

 value it has as a forage-plant. It has a peculiar 

 taste of its own to which cattle have to become 



