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THE BEE-KEEPERS REVIEW 



Some Queens That Will 



Double Your Honey Crop 



If Given a Chance 



Wonderful Results from Care in Breeding 



THE one api- 

 cultural field 

 left nearly 

 untrodden isthat 

 of improvement 

 of stock. None 

 holds out greater 

 rewards for the 

 efforts put forth. 

 This IS proven 

 by the wonder- 

 ful yields se- 

 cured by the few 

 enterprising men 

 who have ven- 

 tured into this fertile realm. For instance, 

 when attending- conventions and visiting 

 bee keepers in New York, in the winter 

 of 1909, I repeatedly heard of the 

 wonderful strain of Italians and the 

 bountiful yields secured by Mr. Geo. B. 

 Howe, of Black River, N. Y. After my 

 return I corresponded with Mr. Howe 

 and learned that for 14 years he had 

 been working in the direction of improv- 

 ing his stock: and that, of late, it was 

 not unusual for him to secure 200 pounds 

 of comb honey per cohny. He said that 

 bee keepers who visited him could scarce- 

 ly believe it possible that he secured such 

 crops. 



At my earnest solicitation, Mr. Howe 

 consented to tell in the Review the story 

 of his success. How he secured the best 

 stock to begin with; how the work of 

 weeding out was performed; his methods 

 of breeding, etc. This article occupied 

 five pages of the Review for July 1910 



Origin of this Stock 



Of cou*-se, there is not room here to 

 give details, but it seems that the foun- 

 dation of this strain came from a red 

 clover or "long-tongued" queen from the 

 A. I. Root Co. and from stock procured 

 from L. H. Robey— principally from the 



latter. Then followed a judicious cross- 

 ing and a systematic selection that has 

 enabled Mr. Howe to practically double 

 his honey crops. 



Following the publication of his article 

 in the Review, life was made a burden to 

 Mr. Howe by the deluge of letters that 

 came to him from all over the country 

 asking the prices on queens. He had 

 none for sale He could not afford to sell 

 his breeding queens— in fact, for three or 

 four years he has offered and would 

 gladly pay SI 00 for a queen whose 

 progeny would prove superior to his 

 present stock. 



