5. Where the bees of a neighborhood are about half blacks and half
Italian, or a good share hybrid, would you advise a person to try to
Italianize, suppose his bees were about half and half?
6. Where the bees of a neighborhood are two-thirds black, and you want
to produce comb honey mostly, would it be best to breed from your best
black queens, rather than to try to Italianize?
7. Don’t you think (of course the big queen-breeders don’t read this
department) that if the black bees had been bred as scientifically, and
as much care and study given them as has been bestowed on the Italians,
in the last 20 or 30 years, they would have been to-day as good, if not
better than the Italian?