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its place taken by the brdinary queen-excluder, as shewn in 

 the illustration. Mr. Wells considers the queens will fight 

 with only the ordinary excluder zinc between them, but he 

 overlooks the fact that queens once fertilised never iight, and 

 if they attempted so to do' could not injure each other because 

 the sting then becomes useless. I have had as many as a 

 dozen fertilised queens all in one compartment without injury 

 to either; but the result with virgin queens, under such a 

 condition, would have been death t^l-1 but one in a very few 

 minutes. 



