150 QUEENS. 
Old queens often come to this same condition. These 
we term ‘spent queens.” They will deposit but few 
eggs, which will pro- 
duce only drones. The 
judicious bee-keeper will 
seldom allow his bees to 
reach this state.’ I have 
7 known swarms that 
went into winter quar- 
ters with an apparently 
good queen, to come out 
In spring with a drone- 
QUEEN, IN WORKER-CELLS. ger and cold will reduce 
a prolific queen to this condition. He and others have 
exposed fertile queens to a very low temperature, and they 
were afterwards unable to deposit other than drone eggs. 
f) YEU. 
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Fig. 65.—QUEEN-CELLS OVER DRONE BROOD. 
It is quite common for bees that have none but drone 
eges, to try to rear a queen from them, but every such 
effort is fruitless. Cells of this kind are shown 1m fig. 65. 
