B i
Bars and frames. April 20th, 1852. [illegible] 1/4 inch from sides of hive. This
will allow bees a free passage. When there were 12 bars in the main hive
there [about?] to be only 9 or 10 in the upper hive
See Be 1

as an object to be directly aimed at to so improve the breed 
of Italian bees that they will forage abundantly upon the red clover. 
This may be done if we can get more size and strength in this bee 
or it we can obtain a stronger proboscis. Prof. J. P. Kirtland of Cleveland, 
Ohio, has proposed to breed Italian bees upon one of the islands of Lake 
Erie where there are no bees, and too remote from other bees to have 
them interfere in his operations. If Mr. Cary, [illegible] myself, 
and a few others will see that he has the best specimens we can furnish
we may in one or two years or a few years get what we want. 
As it seems that the size of the heads of animals is much more 
easily controlled by breeding than the hinder parts, we have special 
encouragement to go to work at the proboscis. Since finding out that the 
roots of the alsike clover do not penetrate like those of the red, I have 
concluded that it would not be so good to enrich land as the red and 
cannot be made to supersede it. 