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larvae — and I don't believe there is a 

 man her'C, or woman either, that would 

 say that the larvae were older than 2 

 days, if they are at all familiar with 

 the size of larvae at certain ages ; let 

 that colony go on for a week or so, and 

 they are not satisfied with the queens 

 they start; they will keep on starting 

 them, and after the time comes that 

 there are no larvae young enough to 



Mr. Taylor. — Yes. 



Dr. Miller — They don't always, be- 

 cause they don't always have the stuff 

 before them. When they have their 

 choice of the right and wrong kind 

 of material they will always use the 

 young, never the old. 



Mr. Taylor — That is not material at 

 all. I have got the queens from too 

 old larvae. You admit that now. 



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President Geokge W. York. 



make proper queens they will still keep 

 on starting, and will then start queens 

 from larvae that are too old. 



Mr. Taylor — That is all I claim. 

 [Laughter]. 



Dr. Miller — Will you put in words 

 what you claim? 



Mr. Taylor — I claim simply that they 

 do not always use larvae young enough. 



Dr. Miller — ^Then we are exactly to- 

 gether. 



Dr. Miller — No, not necessarily. If 

 you take all the cells that they will 

 start, old and young, then you will gei 

 some that are too old. Leave them to 

 themselves to rear the queens and they 

 will never have any that are wrong, 

 because the ones they first start will 

 mature ahead of the bad ones. But 

 you meddle with it, and take out all 

 the cells, and you will get the bad cells 

 as well as the others. The point is this : 



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