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Early Importation of Italian Bees
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 4 Nov 2019 18:29:23 -0500
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> In accordance with my instructions from the Patent Office I arrived in the country of the Italian Lakes in April, 1859, and commenced searching for Italian bees. I wandered about among the hills of this delightful region and examined many hives, but could not feel satisfied that any of them were of the pure Ligurian stock. The Italians are not a careful people, and it is difficult to find among them sufficient knowledge or skill to keep pure any kind of stock. 

[I had to laugh; this American thinks he knows better than the Italians what an Italian bee is supposed to be

source: E. P. [Erick Parmley]. "The Italian Bee." Country Gentleman. 16(18) :287. November 1860.

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