Purvis bros. apiaries: His bees and queens are subjected to tne narsnest and most rigorous pressure with, tne intent of eliminating all but the best

摘要

Shortly after my retirement from a career lasting over 35 years in small grain breeding and pathology we moved to the North Georgia mountains. We had intended to tour the Country in our new motor home but were so enamored of the area we decided to spend all but the coldest months there, escaping briefly to the warm South. I noticed that we had lots of honey bees in the Trackrock area in Union County and became curious enough to see why. I learned that we had a neighbor who I was told was a beekeeper.That piqued my curiosity so I managed to meet Dann Purvis and have since come to learn that in addition to being a beekeeper, he has a very active program engaged in developing improved lines of queen bees. Since my career had involved developing insect and disease resistant small grain varieties, I was very interested in the approach used in this type of effort.