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THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



position to a marked degree, against the equal tests of drones from 

 the cross of the Italian drone on the black queen. 



Why? How? Under what law or influence the same two var- 

 ieties produce such very opposite results is a question I do not con- 

 sider possible for any man to prove a tangible reason for. In figur- 

 ing on the breeding of bees Dr. Bonney has proof on his side. To 

 see it look here: In the hive of a mismated queen, hunt it close, 

 do you not find some workers that are distinctly representative of 

 both parental varieties, and also all grades of the go-betweens? 

 There is the fake of Dr. Bonney's diagram "half bloods." Shoot 

 that one-half blood out of sight. But when he has eliminated that 

 black bood — What? Where did that black shiny queen or worker 

 bee or drone come from? 



And here is an- 

 other nut to crack 

 and pick the meat 

 out of: There is not 

 a strain of Goldens 

 or Yellow, or four 

 or five-banded bees 

 on this earth that 

 have not got black 

 blood in them. See ! 

 by the same law 

 that the w a s h e r- 

 women put blueing" 

 into their rinsing- 

 water to make white 

 clothes w^hiter, black blood into the Italian bee makes the yellow 

 stripes brighter. A whole lot will contradict that law but it is true. 



The prescril)ed rules of arithmetic do not allow that diA'ision is 

 multiplying, and yet it is a fact that it is so. How many of the 

 mathematicians will admit that subtracting, extracting or taking one 

 from two, you have three as the result? Yes and you may and can 

 take 8 from 2 and have 10. These to look at are not common-sense 

 or the great big scientific laws, but nature does it by natural laws, 

 and shoot the rules of the arithmetics. Nature can and has sat a 

 tom turkey on hen's eggs and completely raised a large brood of 

 chickens. That isn't common sense or scientific law. but who cares? 

 f don't. I do know these things are all true. I have seen them all 

 in practical existence hundreds of times. 



But, doctor, you touch the point jokingly that "Some one knew 

 you did not know anything or not much about ]:)ees — that you are 

 "looking for some information." "Knock and it shall be opened unto 

 you. Ask and ye shall receive. Seek and ve shall find.'' This 



A Finland Apiary. 



