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ed a queen go forth ; but I have never yet seen one 

 sally out at that hour. 



DANGER OF THE aUEEN BEING LOST, DURING HER 

 EXCURSION. 



That all these things should be thus made to harmon- 

 ize, for the well-being of the bee, is apparent. How 

 easy a thing it would be, for a queen to lose her way, 

 on her return to her hive, if she had to go forth many 

 limes. 



In her flight, every object that presents itself is new, 

 save what may have been noticed by her on the day of 

 swarming. She sees many hives of the same color and 

 size, and it is only by the most astonishing sagacity, that 

 she is enabled to escape the vicissitudes of a single flight ; 

 and were she compelled to go out daily, for any consi- 

 derable time, not one family in ten would escape de- 

 struction ; for to be without a queen, is certain ruin, 

 when no eggs or larvae exist in the hive. 



HUISh's VAGARIES RELATIVE TO THE USE OF DRONES. 



Huish is a great advocate of the drones being for the 

 purpose of fecundating the eggs, instead of the queens. 

 Hear him : — " If by any accident or untoward event, a 

 hive be deficient in drones, the fecundation of the eggs 

 of the queen does not take place, and consequently, no 

 swarms are produced." 



Whether to impute the foregoing delusion to igno- 

 rance, or to a disordered brain, I am at a loss. Who 

 does not know, that the eggs are fecundated in March 



