Let it first be recognized that three
thousand years of combined effort of
all the beekeepers of all countries
working independently, and working
cooperatively, with the one-handled
tool of female selection have not
availed sufficient change in the honeybee,
either in form or in function, to
enable us to discover any certain difference.

If the Roman poet Virgil
could live again, and visit representative
apiaries in Italy and America
today, he would presumably notice
so little change in the bees he sees
that he would hardly guess that our
stocks are two thousand years removed
from his that he sang about
in the Fourth Book of the Georgics.

Dr. Lloyd R. Watson, New York
American Bee Journal FEBRUARY, 1933

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