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latter are protected from drying up 

 by the hard shell that envelops 

 them. But especially can no bee 

 eggs be preserved, because they 

 are constantly surrounded by a 

 degree of warmth, and by laws of 

 nature the embrj'o of the worm 

 must develop, and regarding this 

 insect it actually does so within a 

 couple of days. 



Whereas a young queen some- 

 times fails to get out of the cell all 

 safe and thus proves a failure, they 

 will rear several queens at the same 

 time, which often will prove a suc- 

 cess, and then again all will fail. 

 Often only with a single egg it is a 

 success. For the royal eggs they 

 will care most attentively, and if 

 by the cold season a sufficient 

 warmth cannot be maintained, or 

 if by the small number the}' cannot 

 attend to the whole, all the rest of 

 the eggs are neglected or aban- 

 doned in preference. 

 Rodheim, Germany, July, 1783. 



[ To be continued.} 



EDITORIAL. 



" Large bodies move slowly" 

 and no great reform is born in a 

 day. Indeed, a system of govern- 

 ment may become corrupt, and 

 those who wish to see justice and 

 right prevail, often toil on for 

 years ere popular opinion supports 

 them in sweeping out the corrup- 

 tion and establishing a reform. 



For years the cause of apicul- 

 ture has suffered almost every in- 



justice and wrong from the hands 

 of those who claimed to be its 

 friends, and it has been impossi- 

 ble to remedy these evils, because 

 the only mediums through which 

 the beekeepers could be reached, 

 were controlled by monopoly sup- 

 ply dealers who publish bee jour- 

 nals, the prime object of which is 

 to advertise their own goods, and 

 make the beekeepers and small 

 dealers support their journals and 

 pay for their advertising, while 

 they "skim off all the cream" and 

 leave for the rest only the "skim 

 milk ;" but the more lamentable 

 feature is that these monopoly sup- 

 ply journals have assumed supreme 

 command, dictating to the beekeep- 

 ers the course that they shall pur- 

 sue, often refusing to recognize 

 an association or publish its re- 

 ports unless they were in perfect 

 accordance with the wishes of the 

 editors of those journals. 



For a number of years we have 

 watched and studied these mat- 

 ters, as also the course taken by 

 our leading bee journals ; and, 

 after carefully looking over the 

 ground and counting the cost, we 

 decided to enter into the field as 

 an editor, and the result has been 

 that for nearly two years we have 

 been publishing the American 

 Apiculturist and you, our read- 

 ers, are perfectly well acquainted 

 with the position that we have 

 taken and held. We have always 

 expected that the time would come 

 when the other journals feeling the 

 influence exerted by the Apicultu- 

 rist would be hound to recognize 

 it ; and, further, we have expected 



