> A few biological differences have been noted as the results of
> observations in commercial apiaries. One of these has to do with rearing
> brood in season and out of season. It is often stated that some one race
> restricts its brood rearing quicker in time of dearth or famine than any
> other race. Studies in the bee culture laboratory of the Bureau of
> Entomology at Somerset, Md., on the Carniolan, Italian, and Cyprian races,
> indicate that there all three give the same relative response to seasonal
> honey flows and pollen yields.
>

Not sure what is being said here with "relative response". If they all
react similarly to nectar flow and pollen then this is not a great insight
since it would be expected  if everything was normal or averaged over time.
Plus, based on the discussion about mutts and the difficulty in finding
pure races, again, it does not say much.

Even more, it says that races do not make any difference, which means you
have to update a lot of books that explain the distinct differences between
those races.

Happy to have things made more clear because that statement did not for me.

Bill Truesdell
Bath, Maine

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