Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1912 — Good Old English Bees. [ARTICLE]

Good Old English Bees.

In England there is a decided tendency to stick to the black bee — sometimes termed “the good olde English bee,” as the equal, at least, of any foreign bee, if not a little better. This does not promise any great improvement in the honeybee, as has been effected in the breeds of cattle, horses, sheep, swine, dogs and poultry. England owes its finest horses to Arabian blood, cattle from the continent ot Europe, sheep to Spain, swine to the north of Italy, dogs to Spain and Greece, and poultry to many countries. The beauty of the yellow races of bees ought to appeal to their bee-breeders, more particularly as Englishmen know beauty is very far from being skin deep. Our most beautiful horses are the swiftest, our prettiest cattle the best milkers, and the handsomest poulh-y the best layers. One tiling is certain, “Apis Aihericanla will be very handsome indeed.