AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 



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L^ove, Be a Gentle IVIaster. 



DORA BEAD GOODALE. 



Love was a stranger. 



Without lock or key 

 He unlocked my bosom, 



And took my heart from me. 

 And now my heart is subject 



Everywhere I go. 

 Be a gentle master, Love, 



To one who loves you so. 



The bee's wing- is fragile, 



The lark's egg is small ; 

 That you took was little. 



But it was my all. 

 Bear the captive where you will. 



To high estate or low. 

 But be a gentle master, Love, 



To one who loves you so. 



—Harper's Weekly. 



Queries and Replies. 



Virp Queens aMtMr Progeny, 



QuEBY 811. — 1. If a virgin queen 

 fails to be fertilized, virill slie lay eggs ? 

 2. If so, will the worker bees of the 

 same colony become fertilized, and lay ? 

 — Maryland. 



1. Yes. 2. No.— H. D. Cutting. 



1. She may. 2. No.— C. C. Miller. 



1. Yes, but her "eggs will produce 

 drones only. 2. No, no. — R. L. Taylor. 



1. Yes, sometimes — drone eggs. 2. 

 No. Worker bees are never fertilized. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



1. Very often she will ; whether 

 always or not, I cannot say. 2. If I un- 

 derstand this, no. — A. J. Cook. 



1. Usually, she will. 2. Sometimes, it 

 is said ; but I have never had a case, to 

 my knowledge. — P. H. Elwood. 



1. Yes, frequently. 2. I had not 

 supposed they would while tolerating the 

 drone-laying queen. — S. I. Freeborn. 



1. Yes. 2. These eggs produce only 

 drones. Worker bees are never ferti- 

 lized. — G. M. DOOLITTLE. 



1. Yes. 2. No. Some of them may 

 lay, but they will not be fertilized, and 

 their eggs will produce only drones. — M. 

 Mahin. 



1. Yes, but the "progeny will be all 

 drones. 2. There are occasionally lay- 

 ing workers, but they produce only 

 drones. — Mrs. L. Harrison. 



1. Yes. 2. Sometimes, but not usual, 

 as long as the unfertilized queen remains 

 in the hive, and continues laying. — 

 James Heddon. 



1. Yes, drone eggs only. 2. Some 

 laying workers may be developed. Such 

 a colouy will soon dwindle out. — C. H. 



DiBBERN. 



1. Yes. -2. I never heard of worker 

 bees becoming fertilized. 2. The prog- 

 eny of an unfertilized queen would evi- 

 dently be drones. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. She will, if over three weeks old, 

 but her eggs will all hatch as drones. 2. 

 Worker bees can never be fertilized, but 

 they may lay drone eggs also. — Dadant 

 & Son. 



1. Usually, but they will produce only 

 drones. 2. No. Workers may lay, but 

 never become fertilized, and their eggs 

 produce nothing but drones. — J. A. 

 Gkeen. 



.1. Yes, but they will all be drone 

 eggs. 2. Worker bees never become 

 fertilized, yet many of them are capable 

 of laying drone eggs the same as virgin 

 queens. — G. L. Tinker. 



1. Yes ; eggs that will produce di'ones. 

 2. The worker bees are not capable of 

 being fertilized, but will sometimes lay 

 eggs. But such eggs produce only 

 drones. — E. France. 



1. She can lay drone eggs. 2. The 

 worker bees will not become fertilized. 

 Under certain conditions a worker may 

 lay drone eggs, becoming what is called 

 a laying worker.— J. P. H. Brown. 



1. Perhaps she will. Such queens 

 usually do. 2. Please tell "Maryland" 

 to read some good bee-book, and he will 

 probably find out that worker-bees never 

 become fertilized, their eggs always 

 producing drones. — A. B. Mason. 



1. Yes. 2. The workers never be- 

 come fertilized, and there is no way of 

 telling, unless you might catch them at 

 it, as the eggs from either queens or 

 workers would produce drones, under 

 such circumstances. — Mrs. J.N. Heater. 



1. Yes, but the result will be drones 

 only. 2. I do not understand what is 

 meant by the question. Workers do 

 sometimes lay eggs, and such are mis- 

 named " fertile" workers; but I never 

 heard of a "fertilized worker." — J. E. 

 Pond. 



