Bill,
 
     I buy my bees from Ross Hatkins, in Elkton, MD, not because his bees are
more consistent or a better breed of bees, it's just because he's local and
is more service oriented.  He only sells grey bees but occassionaly I still
get queens that have yellow young.  I think that breeds are so intermingled
that there are no pure breeds left and if there are I hav'nt come across
them.  I agree with you Bill I think we need to have a discussion on this
mailing lists to see which breeders are delivering better stock than others.
 I thought that was the reason that we had this mailing list, to share our
experiences and information with others.