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During 1921 several stocks which were supplied on 
four frames in May built up to 20 frames and yielded 
180 lbs. per stock by mid July. 
Other stocks, wintered on six or seven frames, built 
up so rapidly that nuclei were taken from them and each 
stock (spring count) yielded 200 lbs. of honey by July gth, 
and gave three nuclei which were on 10 frames and working 
in the supers at this date. 
A large number of Queens have been imported from 
the United States, and these have been carefully tested 
for some years. 
The strains selected are of remarkably gentle dis- 
position and no stock is allowed in the breeding apiary 
unless it can be manipulated without the aid of smoker or 
veil during the working season. As the whole of the 
surrounding district has been re-queened with the selected 
strain, purity of mating can be guaranteed for 1922, and 
any queen producing vicious bees, or showing incorrect 
mating will be replaced. 
For 1922 the selected drone parents are queens of 
the Ben Davis American five-banded golden strain. This 
strain is exceptionally beautiful, and very active in forag- 
ing: the queens are exceptionally large and very prolific, 
breeding earlier and later in the season than those of most 
of the strains examined. This is a very important factor 
to be considered in the building up of a strain resistant to 
Acarine disease. 
Four Queen parents have been selected for 1922 and 
queens can be supplied from any of these, if orders are 
placed in advance. These breeding queens have been 
selected for temper, prolificacy, working qualities and size, 
and are probably the finest, in these respects, it is possible 
to find in Europe. 
Breeding Queen No. 1, selected for the carrying on 
of the strain, was raised in 1921 from-a John M. Davis 
American three-banded golden queen imported from the 
U. S. A., and crossed with a drone of Pure Penna strain 
imported from Italy. The young queens of this cross of 
