THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW 



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"2 — An even mixture of eacli in Ijloocl, but by looks black," 

 has no foundation in fact, and while Air. Snyder takes the trouble 

 to state that "the above is right and a fact," there is one vital fault 

 with it — it is not true. I cannot imagine what a "hybrid black 

 queen or drone"' is other than a mongrel, but I do know, or think I 

 know, as do all bee-keepers who have given thought to the subject, 

 that a cross of a mongrel with a mongrel will beget a mongrel, but 

 in the diagram he gives he claims would have almost pure Black 

 bees in four generations, just as I, studying parthenogenesis, get 

 pure Italians by mating to Italian drones. 



In my article on ]\Iendelism, and in which I gave no diagram 

 of plants. I took an Italian queen and mated her to a Black drone, 

 then carried the mating to the fifth generation, using an Italian 

 drone, because I started with an Italian queen, and Iter drone progeny 



is always pure Italian, 

 though her fem.ale oil- 

 spring are hybrids. I 

 did this because all 

 we have to judge by is 

 color, and I demon- 

 strated how, in time, 

 the Black blood is en- 

 tirely eliminated. AVe 

 did not know for a 

 fact that queens mate 

 but once until the 

 Black bees were mated 

 with the Italian. How- 

 ever, there is nothing 

 new in this, for it is 

 merely parthenogen- 

 esis, which is now ac- 

 knowledged to be a 

 law. It is probable, while other inheritance laws do not seem to be. 



Had I taken a Black queen and mated it to an Italian drone the 

 Italian blood would have been eliminated, and, I infer, in five (5) 

 generations, because it takes that time, mathematically, to prove it. 

 I know there are times when, using Black drones, the Italian blood 

 seems to be wiped out in three generations, but it is not. In the 

 third generation Mr. Snyder takes a "BI Hybrid Black drone," 

 whatever such a mongrel may be, instead of following my plan, and 

 not satisfied with that, mates to a "BI Hybrid Black virgin," and 

 gets, he claims, "one pure Black strain, one pure Italian strain and 

 two hvbrids," and in tlie fourth ireneration. As I said before, this 



T^/s /s 



