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velop them very mncli. They 

 developing for ages and ages, 

 ones have gone down alvva 

 could not get food. They 

 escape their enemies. They 

 repel their enemies, and they 

 veloped, I may say, to the hi 

 sible stage of that sort of 

 Now take bees. The bees hav 



have been deal better than that. They are de- 



'J he weak veloped. Of cour.se, we may do a lit- 



ys. They tie something in the w^ay of increas- 



could not ing that, but we perhaps better do it 



could not negatively. We ought to let those that 



have de- are not doing u'cll peri.sh of themselves, 



ghest pos- as they will. We make a mistake in 



existence. nursing up those that are not able to 



e not been survive of their own efforts, and feed- 



Dr. C. C. Miller, Marekgo, III. 



developed as fighters particularl}', ex- 

 cept what was necessary to keep out 

 certain enemies, but they have been de- 

 veloped from the very first for the pro- 

 duction of honey, because upon that 

 alone has the existence and continuance 

 of the race depended. Now 1 know it 

 is against the generally received opin- 

 ion among bee-keepers, but bee-keepers 

 are all astray in this everlasting talk 

 about improving the honey-gathering 

 qualities of bees. Why, we can do a 



ing them and trying to get them through 

 the winter, and' all this sort of thing; 

 but if we turn our attention to develop- 

 ing bees in the way of right capping of 

 honey, in the way of making white 

 comb honey, in the way of properly fill- 

 ing their sections, making straight 

 combs — for there is quite a difference 

 in- that — and in some other points that 

 I might mention if I could take the time 

 to do it, I tell you we would make a 

 big improvement in bees, for the rea- 



