Tuly 25, 1901. 



AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



477 



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This is a tool used with great satisfaction 

 by S. E. Miller in the apiary. He tells of it 

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Improving Our Stock. 



Here are some words well spoken by " The 

 Worker,'' in the Australian Review: 



Were I forming rules for judging Italian 

 bees, I would place the points about like this : 

 Honey-gathering, SO; prolific ness, 10; gentle- 

 ness, 5; color, .5; total, 100. It is so much 

 easier to breed for color than for honey-pro- 

 duction, that it will be some time before all 

 of the bee-keepers in our land get into line. 

 Some will say, " Oh, the Italian bees are good 

 enough as they are, so long as we keep them 

 of the three-banded strain." Others will say, 

 •• We want our bees to look beautiful; they 

 will get the honey it there is any in the 

 Howers." This is a mistake a great many 

 make. I have had a lot of people say to me ; 



•' What is the use of all your fussing, and 

 breeding this and that l If there is no honey 

 in the flowers the bees can't get it, no matter 

 Avhere they are." 



I admit that, but when there is honey in 

 the flowers the good strains will gather much 

 more than the poor ones will. It is not so 

 noticeable in a good season as a rather ])00r 

 one. Before I commenced breeding for honey- 

 gathering my colonies would vary much in 

 the quantity of honey stored. I remember 

 one year one colony gave me over 100 pounds 

 of honey, while others only gave 30 pounds, 

 and the average of the whole yard was under 

 30 pounds per colony. How I wish I had that 

 queen now. 



By careful breeding I now have my bees as 

 nearly alike as regards honey-gathering as 

 one could desire. Last year there was 

 scarcely a pound of difference in the whole 

 yard, and it was only a fair season for honey. 

 Brethren, let us be ever on the watch for the 

 <iueen whose bees excel in storing honey, and 

 then breed from her, thus ever improving our 

 stock. 



Stimulative Feeding in Spring. 



Tins has sonietimes been spoken of as a 

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 number of bees in the hive. (i. M. Doolittle 

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During all the past we have heard much of 

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 might be a fiii. lie at certain times, but from 

 jiast i-\peririi' ii.i^ and experience, I tind there 

 are times when feeding, or other slimulalive 



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