MANAGEMENT OF HONEY BEES. 1g 
remain just long enough to lay a score or 
two of eggs before her removal, and each 
time the workers:laid the foundations of five 
or six royal cells, and brought them to ma- 
turity. Within the space of a few weeks I 
saw the foundations laid of eighteen or twen- 
ty royal cells, and at the last removal there 
were visible several queens at the same time, 
and I had the good fortune to witness a re- 
gular combat between two of them. 
From all these experiments, it seems now 
a fact established beyond all doubt, that Bees 
can at all times procure a queen for them- 
selves, provided they have a comb contain- 
ing larvee not more than three days old, in 
the common cells, and nothing but certain 
important conditions, such as a_ particular 
kind of food and more spacious lodgment, 
are requisite for the conversion of common 
larvee into queens. At the same time, it 
ought to be candidly confessed, that while 
the fact itself seems now completely estab- 
lished, there are circumstances connected 
with it which Iam unable satisfactorily to 
