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system like some inert or dead thing; and lastly, her eggs 
will not produce males unless at the will of her attendant 
workers. 
Finally, in the event of accident or exhaustion, the drones 
she may produce are still of two natures, because of the 
first point set out, as also are those from the drone breeding 
queen that may have been mated too late to be fully 
impregnated. . 
The Author has many times proved in results attained, 
that of a number of daughters bred from a pure and 
correctly mated queen, the said daughters would produce 
hybrid drones if themselves mating with dark males. 
Furthermore, a daughter of a first cross queen, if mated 
to a pure yellow drone, will tend to produce more evenly 
colored drones. At the same time, another daughter of 
such (first cross), if mating a dark drone, will have nearly 
black drones, 
Finally, no drones from a mis-mated yellow queen can be 
responsible for producing equally yellow workers as those 
of the original strain. 
