46 BEEKEEPING 



Caucasian, Cyprian and Carniolan bees 

 have at times been tried out in this coun- 

 try, but none has offered any advantages 

 over the Italian, and I think that none of 

 them is looked upon to-day as offering 

 any particular promise for the future. 



Regardless of the race to which our 

 bees may belong we must know something 

 of how they act, of what their life-history 

 consists and how they get along among 

 themselves. 



Each colony of bees contains a varying 

 number of individuals, ranging from per- 

 haps as low as five thousand or less to 

 more than fifty thousand, depending upon 

 the season and upon the general vitality 

 of the colony. This vast number of indi- 

 viduals is divided into three classes — we 

 can hardly call them three sexes. 



The largest class contains the worker 

 bees, those who do the real work of the 

 hive. They go out and rustle up the grub 

 and then come home and buUd a place to 

 store it. They feed the young of all 



