The »Wiener Bienenvater« in its issue No 12, 1905, published an 
article, showing that the Carniolan bee at a governmental apicultural 
observing station, surpassed, regarding the gathered quantity of honey, her 
competitors, the German and Italian bees, 
The ability and industry of the Carniolans on red clover, when other 
races kept away from the same, is indisputable. The »Muenchener Bienen- 
zeitung«, a couple of years ago, brought an article relating to this fact, 
saying among other things: »The dry weather of the past season favored 
work in red clover, and the Carniolans appeared on it in full force, whille 
the Americanized — cloverstock did not visit it at all.» The »American 
Bee Journal«, has in its issue of December, 1910, page 384, a correspon- 
dence in which the writer says: So far as Can recall, all the advertisers 
of long tongued stock had Italians to offer, and as the best workers 
I have had on red clover have, as a rule, been Carniolans.« 
The long or short tongues of different strains of bees may or may 
not have something to do with their relative ability of finding honey in 
diverse plants — but ,this is a certain thing: The gray Carniolan bee of 
the Alps, the legs and greater part of her body covered with a hoary 
filament, whose exterier shows sturdiness combined with agility — could 
have evolved these external characteristics only in the higher altitudes of 
her home mountains — the western spurs of the Julian Alps and 
Karawanks — where in the earliest spring (and even in February), exposed 
to biting winds and stinging frosts of the glaziers, she searches the 
highest peaks after the flowers and blossoms that the weak rays of the- 
sun of this season, have called from the clefs and crevices of the steril 
mountain sides. The forbidding location, the rarity of the nectar-bearing 
blossoms, the long way of ascent and descent in the teeth of inclement 
elements, have steeled her body, sharpened her instinct of honeyfinding 
and developed the grim determination and undaunted perseverance to get 
the nectar even from plants, the blossoms of which refuse to yield the 
same to bee races, that were breed and reared under more comfortable 
physical environments. 
» The Imperial-Royal Agricultural Assotiation of Carniola, only this 
hardy strain of the Carniolan bees will export to foreign lands, thus making 
an end to complaints, raised by some foreign importers relative bees 
received from Carniola, which showed yellow markings and other charac- 
teristics, not at all coming up to the high standart they were bought for. 
These bees may have been all right Carniolan bees, crossings with Italians 
and Cyprians as raised in some parts of Lower-Carniola — but they were 
not pure-blooded Carniolan Alpine bees which alone are of value for 
breeding improvements. The Alpine bee reared in Upper — Carniola, the 
gray workers, is the bee which is wanted by connoisseurs and best breeders 
of fine stock. 
It may be here said that in other parts of Carniola than Upper 
Carniola, are raised pureblooded Carniolan bees. In Lower — and other 
