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THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



July 23, 1903. 



an egg that has been fully developed by the 

 mother queen being crowded for room, and 

 egg-laying retarded until the eggs are devel- 

 oped more than normal ; or from an old 

 queen in which the formation of eggs is ceas- 

 ing, and, in consequence, they being fewer 

 in number.are better developed, as in superses- 

 sion. 



Now, I have been reading between the lines 

 for some time, and the only queen-breeder 

 that seems to be conforming to Nature, or 

 nearly so, is G. M. Doolittle, hence his oft- 

 repeated advice to the beginner to rear a few 

 queens about swarming-time. But, on the 

 other hand, while trying to conform with 

 Nature he doesn't admit of a diflerence in 

 worker-eggs. Now, right here I want to ask 

 Mr. Doolittle how he can account for laybu) 

 workers at one time of year and not at other 

 times. I have noticed that worker-bees pro- 

 duced during the swarming period are always 

 better developed in every respect, and partake 

 more of the form of the queen, than during 

 the roomy period in a hive. 



Now, don't thing that I argue against all 

 the other good conditions necessary to pro- 

 duce a good queen, but I want one thing 

 more, a fully-developed egg. 



Let us take a peep into a hive of bees for 

 the season and see what takes place, and we 

 will see that Nature makes no uiistakes. 1st' 

 Nature begins by giving the bees pollen along 

 with a little honey, and there being plenty of 

 empty cells early in the spring, it is the desire 

 of both queen and bees to fill them as soon as 

 possible, consequently eggs are laid as fast as 

 produced and are developed into worker- 

 bees; now, dear reader, just make one of 

 these colonies hopelessly queenless after all 

 the bees from the full-house time of last year 

 are dead, and see it you don't have the same 

 experience as J. A. Green reported. 



We will go a little further, and we find a 

 hive full of bees, drones, honey and pollen, to 

 such an extent that the queen can not lay 

 one-half the eggs she desires, consequently 

 the eggs are better developed, and Nature 

 steps in and creates a desire of reproducing 

 herself. Now, with such a desire, and under 

 such circumstances, would it be anything out 

 of the ordinary run of things if the queen, by 

 some means or other, was to do something in 

 depositing the egg in a cell-cup that would 



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