62 Accou ut of ike Qu een Lee. 
the doGrines of almoft all former writers on this 
fubject, (Schirach.and one or two more except- 
ed,) who affirm that the Queen cannot breed 
without the agency of the drones, or males, 
as they call them, is founded on a miftake. 
For a {mall piece of comb, with common eggs 
in it, may be taken and put into a box along 
with 400 common bees, and tran{ported 1000 
miles from a Drone ; and yet the bees will rear 
a Queen from one of thofe eggs, and that young 
Queen will lay eggs, which in due time will 
produce Queens, Commons and Drones. But 
whether every egg in the common cells of the 
hive can be nourifhed up to produce a Queen, 
I dare not pofitively fay ; although I am much 
inclined to think fo, as I can fafely affirm, that 
not above one in a dozen of my experiments, in 
rearing Queens from what are called common 
eggs, (i.e. eggs that commonly produce working | 
bees,) has ever yet failed, when I either made 
the trial by way of experiment, or adopted the 
plan as a matter of ceconomy. Sometimes a 
iingle egg has failed in making the experiment; 
but this might have happened from fome other 
accidental caufe. As a proof of this, I offer to 
rear 20 Queens, if not 30, out of one hive, du- 
ring the courfe of one fummer, For I have, 
within 
