Those interested in bee culture will be glad to learn that Mr J. H. Harrison has been most successful with his lagnrians, having already ten queens from! tb* . imported stock, which hart been accepted by the common bees, the latter'i qaeeni haTing been first destroyed. Of ooum. . the working bees from these queens willbe hybrids, but the drones most be par* Ligurians. By adopting this plan of putting Ligurian queens at the head of eaoh hire, nothing will be produced bit
Ligurian drones next season, thus making certain of the young queensin the coming.' year being mated with pure drones Even though a small proportion of the queens should mate with black drones in the neighbourhood, they must of necessity produce hybrids, which eminent writers say are much more valuable than the common bee. '
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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3737, 16 December 1880, Page 2
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