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Show ITALIAN BEES ARE THE BcGl Abundant Evidence That Long-Tongued Long-Tongued Insects Do More Work on Red Clover Than Others. There seems to be abundant evidence evi-dence that the Italian bees do work more upon red clover than the blacll bees, and therefore that they do havq longer tongues. The project of breed! ing long-tongued bees that can reach! any or all of the nectar cells in tho red clover ,does not seem to us inn possible when we see what has been accomplished in the line of breeding our domestic animals; our horses for speed or draft, cows for milk, butter or beef, sheep for wool or mutton, and dogs for hunting or other purposes. It is true that in these cases we can control the mating as we cannot that of the queen bee, hut when we 'find colonies that approach the type we want, we can see that only those colonies are allowed to produce drones and queens, cutting out the drone cells from them, and if we allow them to send out a swarm, seeing they are provided with a new queen from the most desirable stock. It may he a work of years, and queens may be, as it is said some have been, sold at $100 to $200 each, but men who understand un-derstand just what they want and work for it usually succeed finally. |