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tion, and usually begins to lay in three to four days 

 afterwards, and continues throughout the season, unless 

 some special iuierruption occurs. 



Except upon this occasion, and in leading out a 

 swarm, the queen probably never voluntarily leaves the 

 hive. 



If, from any cause, the yield of honey fails so far as 

 to make the existence of a swarm in any way hazardous, 

 these preparations are abandoned, and the young queens 

 in all stages, from the egg to maturity, are destroyed. 



When this takes place the drones are the next vic- 

 tims. But when this scarcity and consequent destruction 

 do not occur, the drones are spared until later in the 

 season, still they seldom survive the winter. The presence 

 of drones in a hive at an unusual season, indicates the 

 absence or deficiency of a queen. 



FACTS AND THEORIES CONCEKl^-IN-G GBNEEATIOIT. 



The theory of partheoo-genesis demonstrated by Dzier- 

 zon, the able apiarian of Germany, is confirmed by tlie 

 experiments of Mr. Langstroth aad many others. Mr. 

 Langstroth relates some interesting observations, proving 

 that unimpregnated or virgin queens produce drone 

 progeny only, and that queens or workers cannot be reared 

 from such eggs. Dzierzon established the fact that all 

 impregnated eggs produce workers or queens. 



Mr. Quinby was not only a diligent student of all the 

 views and experiments of these scientific apiarians, but in 

 his own investigations, was ceaseless in the endeavor to 

 demonstrate the truths which a genuine enthusiasm 

 prompted him to seek. 



Many of these facts recorded by other investigators he 

 proved for himself, and during my association with him 

 1 assisted him largely in his experiments. That drone- 

 eggs are not affected by the impregnation of the (^ueen. 



