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only. Fertile workers produce only drones, 39. Dzierzon's opinions orn this 

 subject, 40. Wagner's theory. Singular fact in reference to a drone-rearing 

 colony. Drone-laying queen on dissection, unimpregnated. Diierzon's theory 

 sustained, 41. Dead drone for queen, mistaie of bees, 43. Eggs unfecundaled 

 produce drones. Fecundated produce workers ; theory therefor, 44. Aphides 

 but once impregnated for » aeries o( generations. Knowledge necessary for 

 success. Queen bee, process of laying, 45. Eggs described. Hatching, 46. 

 Larva, its food, its nursing. Caps of breeding and honey cells different, 47. 

 Nyraph or pupa, working. Time of gestation. Cells contracted by cocoons 

 sometimes become too-small. Queen bee, her mode of development, 48. Drone's 

 development. Development of young bees slow in cool weather or weak swarms. 

 Temperature above 70 deg. for the production of young. Thin hives, their in- 

 sufficiency. Brood combs, danger of exposure to low temperature, 49. Cocoons 

 of drones and workers perfect. Cocoons of queens imperfect, the cause, 50. 

 Number of eggs dependent on the weather, <fcc. Supernumerary eggs, how dis- 

 posed of, 51. Queen bee, fertility diminishes after her third year. Dies in her 

 fourth year, 52. Drones, description of. Their proper office. Destroyed by tlie 

 bees. When first appear, 53. None in weak hives. Great number of them. 

 Rapid increase of bees in tropical climates, 54. How to prevent (heir over pro- 

 duction. Expelled from the hive, 55. Jf not expelled, hive should be examined. 

 Provision to avoid " in and in breeding," 56. Close breeding enfeebles colonies. 

 Working bees, account of. Number in a liive, 58. All females with imperfect 

 ovaries. Fertile workers not toh rated where there are queens, 59, Honey 

 receptacle. Pollen basket. The sting. Sting of bees, 60. Oflen lost in using 

 Penalty of its loss. Sting not lost by other insects. Laborsof workers, 61. Age 

 of bees, 612. Bees useful to the last, 63. Cocoons not removed by the bees. 

 Breeding cells becoming too small are reconstructed. Old comb should be re- 

 moved. Brood comb not to be changed every year, 64. Inventors of hives too 

 often men of "one idea." Folly of large closets for bees, 65. Reason of lim- 

 ited colonies. Mother wasps and hornets only survive Winter. Queen, process 

 of rearing, 66. Royal cells, 67. Royal Jelly, 68. Its effect on the tarvie, 69. 

 Swammerdam, 70. Queen departs when successors are provided for. Queens, 

 artificial rearing, 71. interesting experiment, 72. Objections against the Bible 

 illustrated, 73. Huish against Huber, 74. His objections puerile. Objections ta. 

 the Bible ditto, 7>, 



CHAPTER IV. 



CoMD. Wax, liow made. Formed of any saccharine substance. Hnber's 

 experiments. 76. High tempfPature necessary to its composition, 77. Heat gen- 

 erated in forming. Twenty pounds of honey to form one of wax. Value of 

 empty comb in the new hive. How to free comb from eggs of the moth, 78. 

 Combs having bee-bread of great value. How to empty comb and replace it in 

 the hive, 79, Artificial comb. Experiment with wax proposed, 80. Its results, 

 if successlUI. Comb made chiefly in the night, el. Honey and comb made si- 

 multaneously. Wax a non-conductor of heat. Some of the brood cells uniform 

 in size, others vary, 82. Form of cells mathematically perfect, 83, Honey comb. 

 a demonstration of a " Great First Cause," 84. 



