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such a strain as just mentioned. If we secure bees that 
average eight weeks during the busy season, instead of a 
life of six weeks, the difference in work done, and the 
accumulation of population, is readily realised. 
Furthermore, if we get workers to live eight months 
through the dull winter period, instead of six months, we 
are gaining still more, and such stocks stand long winter 
confinement, while all the time the bees are found to be 
bright, slim and active. 
Remember it is the queen behind every good quality we 
are striving for; and queens that produce these long-lived 
workers ensure for the owner nearly every good quality 
required in a high-class strain. 
These bees are strong on the wing, and do not chill so 
readily during cool winds. They may not always be good 
tempered, but that is a trait very easily bred out, and bees 
good in every other respect should not be discarded for that 
trouble alone. Bees that are very gentle are not usually 
good honey gatherers, nor rapid comb builders, and are 
not so quickly shaken or brushed from the combs as more 
active workers. 
There are several other good qualities not to be forgotten 
when selecting queens for first-class results; and in the 
case of comb-honey production these are: readiness of 
the workers to enter supers, rapid comb-building, white 
sealing of the combs, and perfect filling of the sections 
with regular and even attachments all round. 
These desirable traits can be had with the most prolific 
of three-banded Italians if the bee-keeper will secure the 
best and breed solely by the methods of selection as 
previously explained. Great results can only follow great 
endeavor. 
