THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. 



table. He fears that the sand-paper on a 

 mandrel would soon gum up. Neither 

 Mr. Aspinvvall nor Mr. Golden mention 

 this trouble. I presume, of cour.se, that 

 the work is done when the propolis is 

 stiff and cold, and that it crumbles freely 

 instead of sticking. 



arising from their sexuajity, to give their 

 views. Since that matter was put in type, 

 this very point has been brought out in 

 the Quer\- Department of the American 

 Bee Journal, and some of the men who 

 answer queries take the ground that more 

 energy is shown by colonies having 



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SIvCTIOX CLHAXl-R 



ARE THE WORKER.'; MORE ENERGETIC 

 WHEN DRONE.S ARE PRESENT? 



In the Extracted Department is an arti- 

 cle by Mr. Dadant in which he condemns 

 the practice of allowing large nvimbers of 

 drones in each colony. At the close of 

 that extract, I ask all who think that 

 drones are of any benefit, aside from that 



drones. Mr. Aspinwall has also written 

 me, taking the same ground. Most of 

 you are aware that Mr. Aspinwall has 

 experimented a great deal with wooden 

 combs in which it was imposible for the 

 bees to rear drones, and has thus had ex- 

 ceptionally good opportunities for obser- 

 vation along this line; that is, if the wood- 

 en combs themselves were not a discour- 



