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  Mr. 
  J. 
  G. 
  Desborough 
  on 
  the 
  

  

  call 
  this 
  stock 
  A. 
  The 
  same 
  season, 
  1849, 
  our 
  young 
  queen 
  com- 
  

   mences 
  her 
  work 
  of 
  laying 
  eggs, 
  thereby 
  recruiting 
  the 
  population 
  of 
  

   the 
  hive, 
  now 
  so 
  greatly 
  reduced 
  by 
  the 
  departure 
  of 
  the 
  swarm 
  

   and 
  cast; 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  eggs 
  she 
  produces 
  at 
  this 
  period 
  are 
  all 
  

   workers, 
  the 
  numerical 
  strength 
  of 
  the 
  hive 
  is 
  so 
  far 
  re-established 
  

   as 
  to 
  enable 
  it 
  to 
  brave 
  the 
  dangers 
  of 
  the 
  winter 
  season. 
  The 
  

   next 
  year, 
  1850, 
  our 
  young 
  queen 
  of 
  the 
  previous 
  year 
  may 
  be 
  

   styled 
  an 
  old 
  queen, 
  her 
  progeny 
  in 
  hive 
  A 
  has 
  increased 
  the 
  po- 
  

   pulation 
  of 
  the 
  hive 
  so 
  much 
  as 
  to 
  render 
  a 
  swarm 
  necessary 
  to 
  

   be 
  thrown 
  ofT, 
  and 
  the 
  swarm 
  of 
  1850, 
  which 
  we 
  call 
  B, 
  is 
  led 
  by 
  

   the 
  queen 
  of 
  the 
  year 
  1849. 
  The 
  same 
  proceeding 
  occurs 
  with 
  

   our 
  swarm 
  of 
  1830, 
  and 
  the 
  same 
  necessity 
  is 
  occasioned 
  in 
  the 
  

   year 
  1851 
  ; 
  and 
  the 
  swarm 
  issuing 
  in 
  that 
  year, 
  which 
  we 
  will 
  call 
  

   C, 
  is 
  again 
  led 
  by 
  our 
  queen 
  of 
  1849: 
  this 
  would 
  go 
  on 
  ad 
  infi- 
  

   nitum 
  were 
  not 
  the 
  insect 
  tribe 
  under 
  the 
  same 
  sentence 
  as 
  man 
  

   and 
  all 
  things 
  on 
  the 
  face 
  of 
  nature, 
  " 
  once 
  born 
  and 
  once 
  to 
  die." 
  

   When 
  that 
  death 
  takes 
  place 
  in 
  the 
  queen 
  bee 
  is 
  our 
  important 
  

   question. 
  

  

  We 
  have 
  traced 
  a 
  queen 
  from 
  the 
  summer 
  of 
  1849 
  to 
  the 
  

   summer 
  of 
  1851, 
  and 
  the 
  proof 
  that 
  the 
  same 
  queen 
  has 
  existed 
  

   for 
  these 
  three 
  years 
  is 
  this, 
  that 
  the 
  stock 
  of 
  1849 
  threw 
  off 
  a 
  

   swarm 
  in 
  1850, 
  and 
  from 
  the 
  swarm 
  of 
  1850 
  a 
  swarm 
  issued 
  in 
  

   1851 
  ; 
  and 
  as 
  swarms 
  are 
  led 
  by 
  an 
  old 
  queen, 
  both 
  the 
  swarms 
  

   of 
  1850 
  and 
  1851 
  are 
  led 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  queen, 
  being 
  the 
  one 
  pro- 
  

   duced 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  1849, 
  under 
  the 
  circumstances 
  with 
  which 
  we 
  

   started 
  the 
  history 
  of 
  our 
  selected 
  queen. 
  That 
  it 
  is 
  the 
  same 
  

   queen 
  is 
  proved 
  by 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  all 
  the 
  young 
  queens 
  would 
  be 
  

   left 
  in 
  the 
  hives 
  A 
  and 
  B 
  at 
  the 
  time 
  of 
  the 
  issuing 
  of 
  the 
  swarms 
  

   therefrom 
  ; 
  and 
  as 
  the 
  swarm 
  issued 
  from 
  hive 
  A 
  in 
  the 
  first 
  

   summer 
  after 
  the 
  birth 
  of 
  our 
  selected 
  queen, 
  and 
  from 
  hive 
  B 
  in 
  

   the 
  first 
  year 
  of 
  its 
  existence 
  after 
  being 
  hived 
  as 
  a 
  swarm, 
  it 
  

   must 
  be 
  apparent 
  (unless 
  the 
  fact 
  of 
  the 
  swarm 
  being 
  led 
  by 
  an 
  

   old 
  queen 
  is 
  disputed) 
  that 
  these 
  swarms, 
  respectively 
  identified 
  

   by 
  the 
  letters 
  B 
  andC, 
  were 
  led 
  by 
  the 
  queen 
  brought 
  forth 
  in 
  the 
  

   year 
  1849 
  from 
  the 
  hive 
  A 
  ; 
  but 
  had 
  the 
  stocks 
  marked 
  A 
  and 
  B 
  

   omitted 
  to 
  send 
  forth 
  a 
  swarm 
  at 
  the 
  times 
  we 
  have 
  stated, 
  then 
  

   it 
  would 
  not 
  be 
  the 
  fact 
  that 
  the 
  swarms 
  issuing 
  from 
  hive 
  A 
  and 
  

   B 
  were 
  led 
  by 
  the 
  same 
  queen, 
  as 
  we 
  shall 
  presently 
  endeavour 
  

   to 
  show. 
  

  

  Now 
  the 
  swarm 
  of 
  1851 
  (C), 
  although 
  living 
  in 
  the 
  year 
  1852, 
  

   does 
  not 
  in 
  that 
  year 
  send 
  forth 
  a 
  swarm; 
  still 
  the 
  stock 
  lives 
  and 
  

   flourishes, 
  the 
  bees 
  are 
  numerous, 
  and 
  apparently 
  the 
  population 
  

  

  