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part. We wish you to remember tliis, 

 that you may be more charitable toward 

 each other in your dealings. A nice lay- 

 ing young queen, taken from a hive, and 

 shipped to a distance, may prove to be a 

 drone-layer shortly after or immediately 

 after she is received. Such tilings are not 

 very common, but they do occur. In an 



a virgin queen. Microscopic examination 

 has shown an entire absence of spermatozoa 

 in at least one or two instances where 

 queens of this kind were killed and dissect- 

 ed. Similar experiments given by Dzier- 

 zon, show that the spermatozoa may be 

 injured beyond recovery by chilling the 

 queen, and yet the queen herself be resus- 



greiner's method of clipping queens. 



apiary of 50 or 100 hives we should expect to 

 find one drone-layer, on an average, each 

 spring. Dvu-ing the summer, perhaps one 

 more will be found. It may be that the 

 queen was not fertilized sutiiciently, if we 

 may use the term, and that the supply of 

 spermatozoa gave out while she was in full 

 vigor, thus reducing her to the condition of 



citated. We think it likely that hardship 

 and being shipped long distances may pro- 

 duce the same results. Do not think we are 

 going to excuse those who sell queens, and 

 let the blame for unprofitable queens slip off 

 their shoulders; on the contrary, we think 

 they had better make up their minds to ren- 

 der a full equivalent for all the money they 



