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Again he says : " I have put such piece of brood- 

 comb in a small glass box on the top of the hive 

 instead of the bottom, because it was less trouble ; 

 but in this case the eggs were all removed in a short 

 time ; whetber a queen was reared in the hive or 

 not, I cannot say ; but this I know, I never obtained 

 a prolific queen, after repeated experiments in tbis 

 way." He continues : " It would appear that I have 

 been more unfortunate with queens reared in tbis 

 way than most experimenters. I have no difficulty 

 to get them formed, to all appearance perfect, but 

 lose them afterward. Now whether this arose from 

 some lack of physical development, by taking grubs 

 too far advanced to make a perfect change, or 

 whether they were reared so late in the season, that 

 most of the drones were destroyed, and the queen to 

 meet one had to repeat her excursions till lost, I am 

 yet unable to fully determine." . . . " Yet occasion- 

 ally prolific queens have been reared when I could 

 account for their origin in no other way but from 

 worker eggs." 



These are just the results I would anticipate from 

 the manner of conducting these experiments; I 

 should have expected them to be instituted in a more 

 workman-like manner, at least more in accordance 

 with the habits of the bee. Mr. Quinby seems rather 

 in doubt whether bees can and do raise prolific queens 

 from worker eggs. However, this question is now so 

 well understood, having been clearly demonstrated 

 by such authors as Schirach, Februier, Swammerdam, 

 Huber, Bonner, Bevan, Langstroth and others, that I 



