Show see improved honey bee with artificial breeding the way now Is open to improve the quality of honeybee stock through artificial breeding work by C L farrar and W C roberts roberti in a operative cooperative co research project of the department of agriculture and the university of wisconsin indicates although artificial insemination of queen bees has been used to some extent since 1826 1926 until recently it caused a delay in egg laying which made it impossible to conduct large ij scale tests of artificially ed dd queens in full strength colonies in 1914 the di difficulty was remedied by improvements in the technique of insemination developed at the southern states bee culture laboratory and at the northern laboratory in madison trials madison at in 1945 showed that artificially in semina ted queens compared favorably with naturally mated ones as to yields of honey obtained from their colonies and as to the survival of the queens because it Is difficult and relatively expensive to inseminate bees artificially it is not anticipated that the practice will come into general use jy y beekeepers bee keepers the latter however eventually will be beable able to improved honeybee stocks dvo loper by federal and state breeding |