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for lacking the very qualities that another bee-keeper praises 

 them for possessing. 



One of the best qualities of Italians is their undoubted 

 power of resistance to the disease that, in America, is known 

 as "European Foul Brood," and I may now call "melt- 

 ing foul brood" to distinguish it from the ropy form. 

 Whether this most useful quality is shared by the Italian- 

 English half-breds, and, if so, to what degree, it would be 

 well worth while to try to discover. The bee-breeder 

 might succeed, with the aid of INIendelian methods, in 

 separating a highly resistant strain, just as Professor Biffen, 

 of Cambridge, has by this means been enabled to bring out 

 a rust-resisting variety of wheat. We might, perhaps, breed 

 a strain to resist what has proved in some parts of Britain 

 to be a still greater scourge, the " Isle of Wight " disease. 



The fixed types of bees that occur in natui-e in different 

 localities should always be named after the localities from 

 which they come, for variation in appearance is so limited 

 that it often fails to enable one to separate one type from 

 another. 



An account of the work of breeding the British golden 

 bee in Ripple Court Apiary was published in the British 

 Bee Journal in December, 1909. 



Those who wish to know more about Mendelism should 

 read Professor Punnett's book, entitled "Mendelism." 



