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Dissatisfied Humanity. 



A man in his carriage was riding along, 

 A gayly dressed wife by his side ; 



In satin and laces she looked like a queen, 

 And he like a king in his pride. 



A wood-sawyer stood on the street as they 

 passed, 



The carriage and couple he eyed, 

 And said as he worked with his saw in a log ; 



"I wish I was rich, and could ride I" 



The man in the carriage remarked to his wife, 



" One thing I would if I could— 

 I'd give all my wealth for the strength and 

 the health 



Of him who is sawing the wood." 



A pretty young maid with a bundle of work, 

 Whose face as the morning was fair, 



Went tripping along with a smile of delight 

 While humming a love-breathing air. 



She looked on the carriage ; the lady she saw, 



Arrayed in apparel so fine, 

 And said, in a whisper : " I wish from my 

 heart, 



Those satins and laces were mine." 



The lady looked out on the maid with her work, 



So fair in her calico dress, 

 And said : "I'd relinquish position and wealth 



Her beauty and youth to possess." 



Thus it is in this world, whatever our lot, 

 Our minds and our time we employ 

 In longing and sighing for what we nave not, 

 Ungrateful for what we enjoy. 



—Selected. 



Progeny of Italian Mated will Black. 



Query 830.— Do you believe that an Italian 

 queen, yellow or dark colored, mated with a 

 bla k drone, will produce all three or more 

 yellow banded worker bees ? — N. C. 



No. — A. B. Mason. 



No. — C. C. Miller. 



No. — H. D. Cutting. 



No. — Eugene Secoe. 



No.— J. P. H. Brown. 



I doubt it. — E. France. 



Yes. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



No. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



No. No. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



Yes, but not often. — Mrs. Heater. 



She will produce hybrid bees. — G. M. 

 Doolittle. 



No; but as some of the bees — yes, 

 many of them — will have all the bands 

 according to the law of variation, it 

 would seem that a case might be possi- 

 ble where all could be three-banded. — 

 James Heddon. 



An Italian queen so mated might, or 

 might not. I have no doubt some Ital- 

 ian queens so mated would, while more 

 would not. — R. L. Taylor. 



I think not. , All such queens have 

 appeared to produce many one and two 

 banded bees with me ; also many with 

 no bands at all. — C. H. Dibbern. 



Yes. I have had such hybrid queens. 

 The workers are disposed to be ugly, 

 and if queens are reared, the mixing 

 with black blood will be seen at once. — 

 G. L. Tinker. 



Not unless they have been bred in-and- 

 in for color only, for several generations. 

 The mismated daughters of imported 

 queens all produce some black bees. — 

 Dadant & Son. 



I think that some Italian queens that 

 have mated with black drones will pro- 

 duce bees that are all, or nearly all, 

 three banded. Some of the lightest 

 colored bees I have ever had, mixed with 

 the black race, the grandmother of the 

 queen being a pure black. — M. Mahin. 



I think that in rare cases she might 

 do so, which would show great prepo- 

 tency on her part. In most cases, there 

 would be workers one and two banded, 

 and possibly without any of the yellow 

 bands. Crossing bees works just as 

 crossing higher animals. — A. J. Cook. 



Yes, to some extent. She may, how- 

 ever, produce no three-banded bees, but 

 as the blood is mixed, the liability is to 

 produce bees with three, two and one 

 yellow band, and some as black as 

 though no yellow blood existed. This 

 has been tested, and found to be so in 

 hundreds of apiaries. — J. E. Pond. 



No. Such a case has never come un- 

 der my observation. And I go further, 

 and say that not all Italian queens, 

 " yellow or dark colored," though mated 

 with a male of her own race, will pro- 

 duce all" three or more " yellow banded 

 worker bees. There is no further room 

 to doubt that the Italian bee is a thor- 

 oughbred produced by nature. She is 

 not a pure blood. Hence the necessity 

 of breeding her to a type agreed upon 

 by common consent. Three bands may 

 not be as high a standard as some may 

 aspire to. The field is open. — G. W. 

 Demaree. 



Yes ; such a case is quite possible, 

 but generally such a queen would pro- 

 duce bees having one, two or three 

 bands — regular hybrids — or no bands at 

 all. It all depends upon the stock the 

 queen descends from — her strength and 

 potency. — Editors. 



