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or accident she loses the power of using the muscles 
connected with the spermatheca, so as to be unable to 
impregnate the passing egg, she will thenceforth lay 
drone eggs only. 
As a rule, more than one queen is never tolerated in 
a hive; all except one have to leave it, or a combat 
will occur between them, in which all but one must 
perish. When two queens meet they clinch each other, 
and thus remain until one has a chance to thrust her 
sting (with which she is provided) into the abdomen of 
the other. She will never use her sting otherwise. 
Her hatred even extends to the young queens in the 
cells, and she frequently attempts to destroy them, but 
is not always successful, as the nursing bees will do 
their best to protect the inmates of these cells. Yet, 
exceptional cases have been reported where two queens 
remained together in harmony. E. Gallup had two 
stocks in the winter and spring, between 1868 and ’69, 
each having two queens; one he removed to a queen- 
less colony, and the other retained both queens until 
June. 
The queen is able to lay from *,ooo to 3,000 eggs in 
a day ; and in my observing hive, I have seen her lay 
seven eggs in one minute. 
Many believe it impossible that so great an amount 
of eggs can be fertilized from a single connection with 
the drone; but my friend, S. H. Kridelbaugh, M. D., 
