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race. I found that I 

 coukl l)reed the color 

 all rii^hf. but the chor- 

 acteristic's zccrc lost, 

 for the blacker I got 

 them the more like 

 the pure black race 

 with the same char- 

 acteristics they be- 

 came. I am not sat- 

 is.fied with that test 

 until I can select my 

 dark queens and dark 

 drones from a strain 

 of knozcn purity, and 

 take them where 

 they will surely mate 

 together. I will not 

 give it up, for I can 

 breed you nice three- 

 banded bees of known 

 purity that will shake 

 off the combs and 

 handle in many ways 

 like the pure black 

 bees, but they are not 



as irritable or nervous. I know that there are some who have bred 

 bees as to color most beautiful to look at, 1iut in all those l>eautiful 

 colonies of bees that I ha\e had, not one came up to the dark col- 

 onies as to gathering- honey. 



/;/ all fancy stock there is so much to sacrifice for beanfy. 



The House the Bees Built for D, Ansuish. 



HEREDITV. 



Here hangs our success or failure in selecting a breeding queen. 

 For a few years I bred from the queen that gave me the largest 

 yield of honey, but I found that was not a good rule to go by, as 

 some of those zrry best queens for honey proved to be poor breeders. 

 In fact, I test every one, and have often been disappointed in them. 

 Rut, when you do get one of those high flyers that is a good breeder 

 you have got a price. 



My best l)reeders are always above the axerage on honey gath- 

 ering. I test every breeder by rearing a few queens from her, being- 

 sure to number each ciuecn l)y her mother's numl)cr. This way: No. 

 5S-1, No. r)S--2, and so on up. Xow if I ha\'e a voung queen whose 

 work looks promising I rear a few queens from her and number 



