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•crally some of the best, 1 did not like to kill them. 1 tried \entila- 

 tion. but it did no good. 1 found that this was a trait of certain 

 colonics: that ])y changing" the queen I stopped it every time. I 

 wish that it could have been stopped with shade and ventilation, 

 for it would have saved some fine queens for honey. I found, how- 

 ever, that by breeding from queens whose colonies capped their 

 honey white, reduced this trait very much, although we will get 

 now and then one that will cap their honey thin. 



I had to kill all such at that time, but now, with out-}-ards to 

 take them to, I can save them until the proper time to requeen. 

 lUit I would not have them in niy breeding yard at any price. If 

 vou had fought this trait as 1 have, you would not lilame me. 



A PREMIUM QUEEN. 



Tt was about IDDO that I got a queen with Glcanini^s in Bee 

 Culture as a premium. I would like to say right here that the Roots 

 ne\er did a Ijetter thing in their lives for the bee-keeping world, 

 and some day those who made sport of the long tongue and other 

 comments about her will see their follv. She certainlv was a leon- 

 dcrfnl queen. There are others only waiting to be found, and who 

 will find them? 'JTie bee-keeper who is breeding and selecting will 

 surely find more, just as good and better. She is not the only one. 

 liut had the ones that made so much fun taken a daughter of that 

 (|ueen. and done just a little selecting and breeding, we would now 

 have far superior colonies at the present time. 



I reared queens from the Root queen and mated them to the 

 Robey queen's drones. I got a great variation as to cohir, traits 

 and characteristics. The next season I used a Robey queen, mating 

 the queens to the red-clover queen's drones. I got so many good 

 queens from this queen that 1 used her as a breeder for three sea- 

 sons, discarding all the Root, except a few of the very best ones. I 

 culled out all inferior queens, only keeping the best, replacing all 

 poor queens with a daughter of the breeder. 



"PRIDE" PRODUCES 168 BOXES OF COMB HONEY IN THE FOURTH YEAR. 



i called this queen Pride, and she was well-named, for in her 

 fourth year she produced ICxS boxes of comb honey, and nearly 

 every one of those boxes was extra fancy honey. During her foui* 

 seasons she was one of the best, producing over 200 boxes of comb 

 honey for two of those seasons. Don't fear inbreeding. I thought 

 I was inbreeding most too much, so 1 used a red clover queen, as 

 a ])reeder. I got some wonderful queens from this queen, but they 

 did not average up to the Robey strain. 



I had been testing three or four of the best Rol^ev queens for 

 breeders, using the one for a breeder whose daughters gave the 

 largest average — not cue queoi. l.iii (/// of theni. 1 will have to sav 



