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  Mr. 
  J. 
  G. 
  Desborough 
  07i 
  the 
  

  

  " 
  Stock 
  No. 
  i. 
  

  

  " 
  June 
  8. 
  Heard 
  piping, 
  but 
  never 
  saw 
  swarm 
  rise, 
  and 
  never 
  

   missed 
  the 
  bees 
  as 
  to 
  numbers, 
  either 
  from 
  the 
  

   stock 
  hive 
  or 
  glasses. 
  

  

  „ 
  10. 
  Found 
  young 
  queen 
  dead 
  on 
  ahghting 
  board. 
  

  

  „ 
  1 
  1. 
  A 
  swarm 
  or 
  cast 
  issued 
  ; 
  caught 
  queen, 
  and 
  returned 
  

   the 
  bees. 
  

  

  „ 
  15. 
  Came 
  out 
  again, 
  and 
  I 
  killed 
  queen 
  as 
  she 
  was 
  coming 
  

   out 
  of 
  the 
  hive. 
  

  

  ,, 
  19. 
  Came 
  out 
  again, 
  and 
  I 
  killed 
  two 
  queens 
  after 
  they 
  

   had 
  settled 
  ; 
  returned 
  them. 
  

  

  „ 
  20. 
  Caught 
  another 
  queen 
  on 
  alighting 
  board. 
  

  

  ,, 
  22. 
  Came 
  out 
  again 
  ; 
  deprived 
  them 
  of 
  queen, 
  and 
  re- 
  

   turned 
  them. 
  

  

  „ 
  25. 
  Came 
  out 
  again, 
  and 
  joined 
  bees 
  from 
  Nos. 
  2 
  and 
  3. 
  

   The 
  bees 
  from 
  2, 
  3 
  and 
  4 
  having 
  all 
  joined 
  m 
  one 
  

   lump 
  on 
  swarming, 
  I 
  took 
  them 
  in 
  two 
  common 
  

   straw 
  hives 
  ; 
  I 
  afterwards 
  dashed 
  them 
  all 
  out 
  on 
  

   a 
  white 
  clotli, 
  picked 
  out 
  three 
  queens, 
  and 
  then 
  

   distributed 
  the 
  bees 
  amongst 
  each 
  of 
  the 
  hives 
  2, 
  

   3 
  and 
  4, 
  and 
  they 
  all 
  afterwards 
  worked 
  well. 
  

   No. 
  4 
  produced 
  40 
  lbs. 
  of 
  honey 
  in 
  glass." 
  

  

  In 
  the 
  preparation 
  of 
  the 
  portion 
  of 
  this 
  essay 
  treating 
  of 
  the 
  

   age 
  of 
  the 
  queen, 
  the 
  actual 
  pedigree 
  of 
  a 
  stock 
  in 
  the 
  writer's 
  

   apiary 
  is 
  stated 
  ; 
  but 
  upon 
  making 
  up, 
  from 
  the 
  notes 
  previously 
  

   mentioned, 
  the 
  pedigree 
  of 
  other 
  stocks, 
  the 
  period 
  of 
  the 
  change 
  

   of 
  queens, 
  evinced 
  by 
  nonswarming, 
  was 
  found 
  not 
  uniformly 
  to 
  

   correspond 
  with 
  the 
  three 
  years. 
  In 
  several 
  cases 
  the 
  time 
  was 
  

   found 
  to 
  be 
  four 
  years, 
  and 
  in 
  only 
  one 
  instance 
  two 
  years 
  (the 
  

   notes 
  in 
  the 
  latter 
  case 
  were 
  rather 
  imperfect, 
  in 
  consequence 
  of 
  

   the 
  stock 
  having 
  swarmed 
  whilst 
  the 
  writer 
  was 
  absent 
  from 
  home, 
  

   and 
  it 
  is 
  not 
  deemed 
  safe 
  to 
  depend 
  upon 
  them) 
  ; 
  and 
  although 
  it 
  

   may 
  be 
  deemed 
  too 
  presumptuous 
  to 
  assert 
  that 
  the 
  age 
  of 
  the 
  

   queen 
  bee 
  is 
  in 
  reality 
  three 
  or 
  four 
  years, 
  yet 
  the 
  facts 
  adduced 
  

   above 
  from 
  personal 
  observation, 
  and 
  the 
  deductions 
  and 
  conclu- 
  

   sions 
  drawn 
  therefrom, 
  will 
  be 
  deemed 
  a 
  sufficient 
  apology 
  by 
  the 
  

   writer 
  in 
  thus 
  stating 
  his 
  belief 
  that 
  his 
  opinion 
  is 
  correct. 
  

  

  Before 
  concluding 
  this 
  portion 
  of 
  our 
  subject 
  treating 
  of 
  the 
  

   ao-e 
  of 
  the 
  queen, 
  we 
  may 
  merely 
  notice 
  the 
  experiments 
  of 
  Huber 
  

   the 
  naturalist, 
  detailing 
  the 
  production 
  of 
  a 
  queen 
  bee 
  from 
  worker 
  

   eggs 
  ; 
  but 
  as 
  this 
  renewal 
  of 
  a 
  queen 
  cannot 
  be 
  considered 
  as 
  a 
  

   natural, 
  but 
  rather 
  as 
  an 
  artificial 
  one, 
  it 
  does 
  not 
  strictly 
  fall 
  

  

  