7. No, I hardly think so. Between you and me, I don’t think there has
been such an immense amount of science squandered on the breeding of
Italian bees. They are what they are, because of the surroundings in
their native habitat. While some have taken great pains in breeding, I
think a large number to-day would say that an Italian queen imported
from Italy 30 years ago was just as good as the average queen in
America to-day, and every year many queens are imported from Italy and
sold at a high price, which would hardly be, if there was no advantage
in it. And I don’t know that any one claims that any improvement has
been made in Italy, in the past 30 years.
[Illustration: Langstroth