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and I will say that the trait or characteristic of long- range of flight 

 is strongly fixed in our vellow bees. 



Prolificness is all right, and all breeding queens should be pro- 

 lific, but without the other traits and characteristics to go with it. 

 it counts for nothing, and I think we have been misled by some 

 writers advocating it so strongly, as we all know it is not our most 

 prolific races that gives us the large yields of honey, and where one 

 race would suit one location better, another race would be more 

 suitable and more satisfactory for other locations. 



I do not know which is the best race onl}- for ni}- location, and 

 right here let me say 1 did get some wonderful colonies from the 

 Carniolan queens crossed with Italian drones, l)ut as they did not 

 give me so much honey I discarded them. I had been led to believe 

 that most any race of bees crossed with Carniolan drones would 

 improve their temper. I got the worst stinging bees from Italian 

 queens mated to Carniolan drones, and in all my experiments I 

 never saw a hybrid colony that you could handle as you could a 

 pure Carniolan or Italian colony, in all kinds of weather and honey 

 dearths or flows. Take my advice if a bee-keeper says that his 

 bees are gentle }'(>u can rest assured the\' are j)retty well l)red one 

 wav or the other. 



The Bees Themselves of D. Anguish. 



