134 BEE CULTURE 
more than one-third of an inch in length, which will be suffi- 
cient to reach the nectar in the first bloom of red clover. 
In 1879 we attended the great Bee and Honey Shows and 
Congresses of Europe, and took with us some bees from the 
apiary of the BEE JocRNAL—not to “astonish the natives,” 
nor to arouse the jealousy of those of Foreign climes—but to 
get a frank and free expression of opinion concerning them 
from some of the best apiarists of the World: We submitted 
them to such eminent men as Signors Pietro Pilati and the 
late Lucio Paglia, two extensive : Italian bee brecders ; Mons. 
Dennler, editor of the Alsacian Bienen Zuechter; Mons. Kd. 
Bertrand, editor of the Budletin D’ Apiculteur, of Switzer- 
land; Herr Kail Gatter, editor of Bienen Vater, in Vienna, 
Austria ; Mons. Ed. Drory, late editor of LZ’ Apiculteur, Bor- 
deaux, Franee ; Mons. H. Hamet, editor of L’ Apiculteur, 
Paris; Count Gactano Barbo, President of the ‘Central 
Societie d'Apicoltore ;” Count Alfonso’ Visconti de Saliceto, 
editor of ZL’ Apicoltore, at Milan, Italy ; the great Dr. Dzier- 
zon; the Countess, widow of the late ‘Baron of Berlepsch ; 
the late Herr Augustus Schmid, editor of the Bienen Got. 
tung; Herr Emil Hilbert ; Herr Vogel, and many others, 
whose names are “ household words ” “throughout the apicul- 
tural World—and these American-bred Italians were pro- 
nounced the most beautiful bees they had ever examined. 
LP? Apicoltore for October, 1879, contained the follow- 
ing: “We have had a visit from Signor T. G. Newman, 
editor of the AMERICAN BEE JourRNAL, and President of the 
North American Bee-Keepers’ Society, who exhibited to us 
some samples of American-bred Italian bees obtained by 
constant selection of the best to breed from. They were 
workers and drones the most beautifel we have ever seen. 
Their color was of a splendid light yellow ; the rings of the 
abdomen were also yellow, with the exception of the last, 
which was blackish, yet the sides were yellow. On the corse- 
let, near the junction of the abdomen, they were of purer 
yellow than we had ever seen on any other bees.” 
The bee of the “future” will be the one that will gather 
the most honey, be the most prolific, and, at the same time, 
the most docile, hardy and industrious ; and when produced, 
whatever may be its color or markings, its name will be Apis 
Americana ! 
