THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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A Corner of Dr. Bonney s Apiary Housed in Woodman Protection Hives 



of queen, saying he would pay SKiO for such. I replied that I would 

 not give that price for any queen until I had had lier for one or 

 two years.'' 



Mr. Wesley Foster tells me in a recent letter: 



"Unless exhaustive experiments are conducted with bees as did 

 Mendel with sweet peas. I do not think we can better the situation 

 any by voicing our opinions — and here I am voicing mine. I believe 

 that good will come from selection and purity of mating among 

 bees. In fact, something has already been accomplished. Because 

 the proposition is a difficult one on account of the difficulty of 

 getting queens mated to hand-picked drones, should not cause the 

 throwing of cold water on the whole matter. It should si)ur us on 

 to renewed efforts." 



Funny how so many want to scold me for having an opinion 

 of my own. 



Joking aside, however, note how careful these bright lights in 

 beedom are in expressing their opinions, and how eager queen 

 breeders are to assure me that their queen's progeny will inherit 

 the good qualities of the mother queens. 



In conclusion, and to show some of the funny thines I receive 

 in the mail, I quote from the letter of a queen breeder, and said 

 letter goes with this article to the editor "as evidence of good 

 faith" : 



''I have here in my yard some seven races of bees in sixtv hives, 

 and I found last fall goldens forging ahead in storing honey." 



And this from a man who has. he claims, been rearing queens 

 for twentv vears ! 



