rHE BEE-KEEI»ERS' REVIEW. 



Such a course of argument would make 

 the table stand thus: 



15 larvse were selected when 3'oung 

 enough. 



o larvse were selected when of doubtful 

 age. 



2t larvae were selected when too old. 



The doctor takes one extreme in his 

 foregoing statements, and I have here 

 ta.ken the other. He counts, when there 

 is doubt, that the bees will select only 

 those larvae three days old or under; I, 

 that they will select only those older than 

 three days. Both processes are equally 

 valid; or, rather, equally invalid. 



started cells — keeping in mind that the 

 colony was unqueened July 5 at 4 P. M. 

 Again, with the table before us, if I 

 may once more use the kind of reasoning 

 employed by the doctor, I find by inspec- 

 tion that at the very first examination 

 two cells are found on comb b begun on 

 larvse selected when too old for the pro- 

 duction of good queens; and at the sec- 

 ond examination, two days after unqueen- 

 ing, three more cells are found on comb b 

 containing larvse selected when too old; 

 and again the argument by which he es- 

 tablished his statements, and this one I 

 have used, are both alike fallacious. His 



To render the matter easier of under- 

 standing to the reader, overlooking a few 

 errors and inconsistences in the doctor's 

 figures which are only important because 

 disconcerting to one studying his data, I, 

 on this page, tabulate the results of the 

 observations in the search for newly 



argument assumes that, having a choice, 

 bees will choose larvse young enough to 

 produce good queens; the one I have 

 here used that they will select larvse 

 that are too old. Both assume as settled 

 the very point to be settled — the very 

 question in debate — the very problem 



