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It seems from some provision of nature, 

 that the drone-eggs never receive this 

 seminal or impregnating fluid, hence the 

 drone progeny is no blood kin to the 

 father of the sister bees. A pure Ital- 

 ian queen will produce pure Italian 

 drones, but if she be mated with a black 

 or German drone, her female or working 

 progeny will hybridized. ReadDadant's 

 " Revision of Langstroth," pages 53 and 

 54. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



1. No. 2. I don't account for them, 

 as I don't think they exist. If the 

 drones are impure, the queen was. How 

 can any one swear that a queen is surely 

 pure ? Tainted drones show that she is 

 not. I have tested this question very 

 carefully, and to my full satisfaction. I 

 will soon give an elaborate article on it 

 for the readers of the American Bee 

 Journal. — A. J. Cook. 



1. There is no difference that I can 

 ■jell by looks ; but there certainly must 

 be a difference. I will now state what I 

 have been afraid to talk about, hereto- 

 fore, viz : That a queen mating to a 

 different race has a tendency to affect 

 the drone as well as the worker. I may 

 get a tongue-lashing for this, but I will 

 tell you that my notion is that the bee- 

 business wont run well on theory, no 

 how. — Mrs. Jennie Atchley. 



1. This is getting to be a terrible ques- 

 tion — like Bango's ghost, it won't 

 "down." But I will give you my views 

 on the subject. As the eggs are formed 

 and developed in the ovary, there can be 

 no perceivable difference whether grown 

 in the ovaries of a fertile or unfertile 

 queen. But all my experiments demon- 

 strate to my intelligence, that the drone 

 progeny of a virgin queen is sterile — 

 while the drone progeny of the fertilized 

 queen is fertile. Now when the virgin 

 queen mates with the male, and her 

 spermatheca is filled, she receives addi- 

 tional strength not only to produce 

 drone progeny, but fertile drone progeny 

 — and — and — . Please tell me how it is, 

 or have me excused. — 6. W. Demaree. 



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Report of the Illinois State Bee- 

 Keepers' Convention. 



Written for the American Bee Journal 

 BY W. Z. HUTCHINSON. 



(Continued from page 574.) 

 SECOND DAY— Forenoon Session. 



After the address of' welcome, Presi- 

 dent Hambaugh asked for criticisms upon 

 the former report of the association, 

 with a view to the improvement of 

 future reports. He also called attention 

 to the fact that somebody must look 

 after the matter of getting a continua- 

 tion of the $500 appropriation. He 

 showed how important it was that bee- 

 keepers write to their members of the 

 legislature, urging them to vote for the 

 appropriation. 



Secretary Stone said that there were 

 still copies of the report on hand, and 

 money with which to pay postage. If 

 bee-keepers, or their friends, wished for 

 them, they could be had upon applica- 

 tion. 



S. N. Black said that a member of the 

 Legislature almost sneered at him when 

 he asked him to vote for the appropria- 

 tion bill. He (Black) went home and 

 wrote to him and several other members, 

 long letters explaining matters. They 

 were surprised at what they learned, 

 and very willingly voted for the bill. 



J. M. Hambaugh advised working in 

 conjunction with the horticulturists. 



J. A. Green — I approve of the views 

 of Mr. Hambaugh, and would suggest 

 that a copy of our report be sent to each 

 member. 



President Hambaugh said there was 

 no danger but what the horticulturists, 

 at least some of them, needed educating 

 in apicultural matters. At a farmer's 

 institute he had been put upon the pro- 

 gramme for a talk upon bees. In the 

 course of his remarks he alluded to the 

 value of bees in fertilizing blossoms. 

 Some were astonished, and one man was 

 inclined to take issue with him. 



Frank Benton suggested the getting 

 from each county a list of the honey- 



