76 THE SWARMING FEVER AND ITS SYMPTONS. 



from such queens whose progeny give the greatest number of 

 advantageous points. As yet, we have no means of choosing bees 

 furnishing the superior masculine traits of character; but by 

 constantly selecting queens for stock purposes, possessing the 

 greatest number of desirable peculiarities, a strain of workers will 

 be the result, valuable for all the good qualities required in a 

 domesticated bee. Always select the fittest, and the fittest must 

 survive. Not otherwise. 



Old Straw Hives. 



