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continuing to do this for at least two weeks. Astonishing the num- 

 ber of eggs a queen will lay in a short time under the above 

 conditions. We owe Air. Simmins a vote of thanks for this plan, 

 which is fully explained by Mr. A. C. Miller, American Bee-Keeper 

 (now suspended), 1908, page ITO. 



At the end of two weeks remove the feeders, fill hive with 

 frames of hatching brood, placing two frames of drone comb in 

 same and I assure you we will have drones. 



At the proper time remove queen from hive No. 1, allowing 

 them to mature ten queen cells, distributing these cells to as many 

 nuclei to be mated to drones from No. 2. The mother of these 

 drones is not only a full-blooded sister to the ten virgins, blood for 

 blood, so to speak, but her drones are of the same identical blood, as 

 they are not affected by her mating, therefore, from man's stand- 

 point of kinship, we are mating aunts to nephews, but. as an actual 

 fact we are mating full blooded brothers and sisters — the same blood 

 — inbreeding. 



If any doubt this is inbreeding, let them take one colony, 

 faithfully follow the plan outlined for five bee generations only 

 (three will do if he is a live bee-keeper), and if the bald-headed, 

 lopsided, more or less hairless, wingless and weak-kneed queen, 

 drones and workers do not convince him he is inbreeding and 

 that Parthenogenesis is a blessing, I would like for him to explain 

 what is wrong with these bees. 



On the Mississippi. 



How a Subscriber Will Test Mendelism This Season 



GEO. SHIBER. 



^•JU'RIEXD TYRRELL: Perhaps the further discussion of the 



ir science of bee breeding from the standpoint of Mendel may 



make you ache, but during the past year I have been reading 



on the experiments of Mendel and I think it is going to be of 



benefit to bee-keepers. 



I was especially interested in the article by Dr. Ilonney in the 

 January Review, as I have been making a study of the principles 

 laid down, or rather proven by Alendel. Friend Bonney, so far in 

 his article, seems not to believe that the bee is capable of further 

 mutations (beelogically speaking) by reason of the fact that she is 

 "highly specialized" — or may be we could leave oft' the word 

 "highly" and come nearer his belief. If this be so, I do not agree 

 with him, although I think facts will prove that the bee has reached 

 a much higher specialized plane of development than most plants 

 and animals. 



