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jelly, immediately changes tlie nature of its recipient, 

 and the properties of a queen begin to be unfolded. The 

 size of the cell, and its vertical position, perhaps has 

 some influence and agency, in producing a royal scion ; 

 but the grand elixer, is the royal jelly, as is universally 

 supposed, that effects the change. 



The only man that ever pretended to have actually 

 discovered this royal pap, is Huber ; for there was no- 

 thing under heaven that he could not discover, through 

 his assistant, Beurnens, who used " to upset the bee hives 

 on the death of a member of the family !" He not only 

 saw it, but tasted it, as he states. 



Huber gave it the name of royal jelly, and on giving 

 his discoveries to the world, naturalists promulgated his 

 theory, and many apiarians have become re-echoers of 

 it. Some, indeed, do contend, that it takes a queen egg 

 to produce a queen, but they are behind the age. This 

 assumption will not stand a moment. I have time and 

 again, proved that a worker egg will produce a queen ! 

 as I shall relate, at the proper time. And in regard to 

 the theory of " royal jelly," it is quite plausible, for, if it 

 be not a difierent food, that produces queens, what can 

 it be ? No man, in my opinion, knows anything more 

 about this royal jelly, or whether it does or does not 

 exist, than perhaps the reader, who perchance does not 

 know a queen bee from a worker or drone ; yet the great 

 and wonderful truth stands impregnable, that a different 

 treatment does produce queens, and that positively, there 

 is no difference in the egg used for this purpose, and 

 that, from which a worker emerges ! 



