18 SUCCESSFUL BEE-KEEPING. 
ant ; anew egg is soon laid, and at once the watchful 
workers Bac) vigil there. lous to five days elapse, and 
= ine Wn peor i; the tiny egg breaks into a shapeless 
ne i yf mass—save that something like an 
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worker is seen peeping into the cell, 
nursing and providing for the needs 
of its occupant. Scarce a moment 
can pass, but some new comer deposits its apportioned 
food. Night and day this work of watchfulness and care 
continues without interruption, while generation after 
generation come and go from year to year. No confu- 
sion, not the slightest discord, even for a moment, but 
each, intent on its appropriate task, right gleefully plies 
its willing hands and feet, and all to one continual work, 
work, work! And amidst all this multiform labor, order 
reigns. If any cells are found of too great depth, in con- 
sequence of having been used for the storing of honey 
for the previous winter, they are at once cut down to the 
required length on the approach of the broods to their 
vicinity. Mathematical precision is apparent in all the 
household! From whence? What silent, magic influ- 
ence pervades the honied dome, and guides its myriad 
throng? We will open the hive and take away the 
queen. Here she is! Now it is closed again, and while 
I hold her in my hand here, let us keep a close watch 
upon the movements in the interior of the hive, through 
its glass sides. Where but a moment since all was order 
and work, what have we now? See! The bees are run- 
ning here andthere. The tumult increases! Fifteen min- 
utes have scarcely elapsed, and tumultuous disorder hag 
broken out through all the camp. All appears alarm and 
; microscope ; when worker after 
“T—Brood. 
