1907- 



TH E AMERICAN BEE-KEEPER 

 THE 



6i 



EAGERLY INDUSTRIOUS 



BEE. 



finished sections and the bees mo- 

 lested and the work in the supers to 

 some extent has been checked. 



A few years ago we bought some 



Italian queens, introduced them and ^^^^^ latham. 



tried those colonies for comb honey A S SPACE in the columns of the 



treating them as we did the German /A American Bee-Keeper is too 



bees, but failed. They would swarm valuable to devote to a full 



and but little work was done in the discussion ^of the question in dispute 



supers. They were poor comb build- between Mr. Miller and myself, much 



ers and did not cap the honey nicely, as that might be desired and impor- 



Therefore. they did not give us sat- taut as it is to leave nothing unsaid 



isfactory work in the comb honey su- that favors the bee, I must go im- 



pers. mediately to the centre of my side 



We hold no prejudice against the of the question. I will therefore leave 



FIELD MEETING OF MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF BEE-KEEPERS, 

 Home of Geo. W. Adams, Byfield, Mass., Summer of igo6. 



Italian bees. We like them and keep 

 them in their purity, but only in our 

 extracting apiaries; but when the 

 stock runs back to blacks we have al- 

 ways found them a poor strain of 

 bees, furious fighters and poor honey 

 gatherers, and this may account for 

 some of the abuse the black bees get. 



In the production of a fancy article 

 of comb honey the German bees have 

 no equal, and it is the writer's opinion 

 that if we ever have a nonswarming 

 strain of bees we will have to go back 

 to the pure German stock to get it. 



Cordele, Ga. 



]\Ir. Aliller's latest arguments unrefut- 

 ed. letting them be accepted or re- 

 jected as the reader sees fit, and will 

 ofifer at once the facts which prove 

 the bee to be eagerly industrious. 



Let us take our stand by a hive 

 some morning at a season when the 

 fields are favoring bee-life and watch 

 the bees as they go out to their work. 

 Can any one see them issuing eager- 

 ly, and hear the sharp "zip,"' "zip." as 

 they leave the hive, without admir- 

 ing their active ways? 



Follow them to the fields. Wa.tch 

 this one gathering pollen, see how 



