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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



Improving Your Bees While Producing Honey. 



GEO. B. HOWE. 



(Continued from April number.) 



What would other breeders think of our inditterence in selecting 

 our males? This part of the bee breeding has been sadly neglected 

 for years. 



Would a breeder of fast horses select a draft horse for a sire, 

 or would a breeder of a great milking strain of cows select a sire 

 of a beef type of cattle to use? 



I am just as sure that we iiiusf select our drones of a honey 

 gathering strain, as the breeder of fast horses selects the sire from 

 a true racing strain. So does the breeder select his males from the 

 greatest milking strains of cattle. And you will find that he takes 

 as much pains and more in selecting the male than he does the 

 females. 



The drone is the son of liis mother, and has no father direct. 

 So we must select our drone mothers a year in^ advance, as the 

 drone mother must have all the qualifications of our queen mothers 

 as regards to honey gathering, and besides her drones must be 

 perfect. 



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Sixty C the Cooper Yard, Working for Howe. 



