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tion, and usually begins to lay in three to four days 
atterwards, and continues throughout the season, unless 
some special interruption 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 CONCERNING GENERATION. 
The theory of partheno-genesis demonstrated by Dzier- 
zon, the able apiarian of Germany, is confirmed by the 
experiments of Mr. Langstroth and 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 
I assisted him largely in his experiments. That drone- 
eggs are not affected by the impregnation of the queen, 
