THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 9 



queens to mate with Italian drones by having only Italian drones 

 so far as you can control them, by excluding and exterminating all 

 other drones, and you have not got the three-quarter in this second 

 generation, but, from the light colored queens mating with the Ital- 

 ian drone you will have workers predominating in the lighter col- 

 ored workers, and from the darker queens mated wath Italian drones 

 you will have predominating the light chocolate colored workers, 

 long" heavy abdomens and very good honey gatherers (breeding these 

 chocolate things together are what produced the celebrated big- 

 brown German bee of the eighties), and likely to be more gentle 

 than the brighter colored stock of the same cross and generation. 

 But! They are the race-horses to run out of the hive entrance when 

 suddenly smoked on top of the frames, while those of the yellower 

 class are most likely to give the stinging resentment in full degree. 



Selecting the queens to work and breed from out of this second 

 cross with Italian drone, (_as in illustration the three-quarter blood 

 Italians) raise the queens to mate with Italian drones. And the 

 workers from those selected light colored queens as the ones used 

 as breeders, and what do you get in their w^orkers? As In' the dia- 

 gram it is 14/16. Is it? Well, you get some queens that are very 

 dark brown and some queens that are nearly all yellow all over, and 

 all of these queens mated to pure Italian drones, very nearly every 

 queen will throw some good bright colored four-banded workers, 

 and some of the very brightest colored of the queens will throw 

 both four-banded and five-banded workers. Try it Dr. Bonney and 

 see for yourself. I was there thirty years ago, and have continually 

 seen the same every year since. 



In your next, or fourth generation of the queens selected and 

 mated to Italian drones, you can select queens that do and will throw 

 solid yellow worker bees, and they will more or less show ^-he dis- 

 position to sting. 



Xow here is a dig at your diagram. From the queens raised 

 from the queens of the first Italian queen mated to black drone, will 

 you please to raise some drones. Those drones from the increase of 

 Italian blood will in each generation of the Italian influence show 

 more and brighter yellow bands, that show the influence of the 

 Italian blood as a mixture. The real pure Italian drone has only a 

 band tinged with a coppery bronze edge, while the drones with that 

 trace of black blood in them can. will, and do, have a distinctly yel- 

 low or mottled yellow marking on from one to three of the abdomen 

 bands. 



How much of this article looks like good common sense to Dr. 

 Bonney and all the rest, or how much is that glorious scientific w^ork 

 that has a high sounding, great big noisy name. I don't care one 

 rap, See? I have been all through that game and that n^ad I have 



