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Xlie Indian Summer. 



Written for the Home and Farm 



BY A. F. BROWNE. 



The sunliglit, in a warm And mellow tide 

 Upon this Indian summer day descends ; 



Earth, sky, and all the view of waters wide 

 In silent and harmonious beauty blends. 



Along the southward slope?, the aftergrass 

 Still shows the emerald shade of summer time ; 



With lingering pace a troop of zephyrs pass. 

 And oft repeat averse of mystic rhyme. 



The vapor ships that slowly cross the sty 

 Are smooth and fleecy, liiic the clouds of June, 



And only trees that leafless meet my eye 

 Rami ad me earth has passed from Nature's noon. 



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Depositing; 



Eggs in 

 Cells. 



tlie Royal 



Wrttten for the American Bee Jowmal 



Query 590.— How nearly complete is the 

 royal cell when the queen deposits the egg in 

 it ?— S. 



as to the length. - 



About one-thh-d, 



G M. DOOLITTLE. 



I do not know. — J. M. Hambadgh. 



Usnalh- it is in the eafly stages. — 

 Mrs. L. Harrison. 



When it is about in the shape of the 

 Clip of a small acorn. — M. Mai-iin. 



Just when they are about the size of 

 a small acorn-cup. — P. L. Viallon. 



Only just started, or in the " acorn- 

 cup " stage. — James HEDDO>f. 



Probably about one-half completed. 



C. H. DiBBERN. 



It is only advanced to a cup-shaped 

 appearance. — J. P. H. Brown. 



I have seen some barely begun, and 

 others almost large enough to seal 

 over. — C. C. Miller. 



It is like an acorn-cup, \ to J of an 

 inch deep. — R. L. Taylor. 



I do not remember just now of hav- 

 ing seen a queen deposit an egg in the 

 royal cell. You will generally lind an 

 egg in the cell when about one-third 

 formed. — H. D. Cutting. 



The royal cell is frequently made 

 around an egg that has been placed in 

 a worker-cell, and I have known the 

 egg to be placed in the royal cell when 

 more than half completed. — A. B. 

 Mason. 



It varies much ; often in a shallow 

 cup ; sometimes in a nearly completed 

 cell. — A. J. Cook. 



It depends upon circumstances. I 



the inci])ieni cup from which the cell is 

 built. The question is mooted. — J. E. 

 Pond. 



As a swarm sometimes Issues before 

 queen-cells are started, it is plain that 

 the}' are sometimes far from complete. 

 I think that the queen does not always 

 deposit the egg in a royal cell. — 

 Eugene Secor. 



I have seen this done only once. I 

 held the comb in my hands, I saw the 

 cell prior to the queen's visit, and saw 

 it at the time of visit and afterwards. 

 She undoubtedly laid in it at the time. 

 The cell was about J an inch deep. A 

 very fine queen was developed in the 

 usual time from this queen-cell. — J. M. 

 Shuck. 



The queen does not deposit the agg 

 in the royal cell. The workers select 

 a common worker-cell (with a larva 

 from one to two days old) ; enlarge 

 the cell — perhaps at the 'expense of 

 three or four adjoining cells — and lit- 

 erally "Hoat" the larva in royal jelly, 

 which is simply partly-digested honey 

 and pollen. The worker-egg, under 

 this treatment will, in 16 days, hatch 

 out into a perfect queen. — Will M. 

 Barnum. 



I have often seeil eggs " standing on 

 end " in the usual way, in queen-cells 

 no deeper than an ordinary acorn-cup. 

 According to my observations none 

 but old or otherwise condemned queens 

 ever lay eggs in queen-cells ; and in 

 these cases most likely they are forced 

 to do it by the worker bees. Lajing 

 workers and exhausted queens, and 

 sometimes drone-laying queens will 

 lay eggs in queen-cells. But when 

 strong young queens swaruu they 

 usually go out before txxiy cells have 

 been started. — G. W. Demakee. 



The egg will generall}' be found in 

 the royal cell when it is from one- 

 fourth to one-third of its length — but 

 sometimes when it is nearer complete. 



-The Editor. 



Does 



it Injnrc a Queen to Sting 

 Her Rival J 



Written for the American Bee Journal 



Query 591. 



ing her rival ? 



—Is a queen injured by sting- 

 -Illinois. 



No. — P. L. Viallon. 



No.— R. L. Taylor. 



Not usually. — Dadant & Son. 



I think not. — H. D. Cutting. 



Not in the least. — M. Mahin. 



Yes, probably. — ^Mrs. L. Harrison. 



I think not. — J. M. Hambaugh. 



I think not. — A. B. Mason. 



Probably never. — C. C. Miller. 



I think not, but I do not know for 



Usually not ; but possibly she maj- 

 be sometimes. — A. J. Cook. 



No, sir ; but she is by her rival sting- 

 ing her. — -J. E. Pond. 



I do not know, but I think not. — 

 James Heddon. 



Gracious ! I don't know. — J. M. 

 Shuck. 



I think not. Still I should prefer 

 that a good queen should never com- 

 bat with another queen. — G. M. Doo- 

 little. 



I have met with cases where I con- 

 eluded that they had been injured in 

 this manner. — J. P. H. Brown. 



No ; not as I have ever been able to 

 observe — and I have made some ob- 

 servations in this direction. —Will M. 

 Barnum. 



I never supposed that the constitu- 

 tion of a mule was impaired by the 

 sudden contact of his hind feet with 

 some soft spot on the driver. No. — 

 Eugene Secok. 



To say that the surviving queen is 

 ?iev€r injured in her conflict with her 

 rival, may be putting it too strong, but 

 as a rule she is not injured in the least, 

 I know of one ease in which the con- 

 test between two queens proved fatal 

 to both combatants ; which case seems 

 to prove that there are exceptions to 

 the general ride. — G. W. Demaree. 



Generally she is not injured, but an 

 injury may occur in some case.s. — 

 The Editor. 



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