BREEDING. 
75 
queen had left. The consistence of this food is about 
like cream, the color some lighter, or just tinged with 
yellow. If it was thin like water, or even honey, I 
cannot imagine how it could be made to stay in the 
upper end of an inverted cell of that size in such quan- 
PIATE OF THE THREE KINDS OF CELIA 
tities as are put in, as the bees often fill it near half 
full. Sometimes a' cell of this kind will contain this 
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