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as the first is full, as it takes both sections to make one 
perfect hive. Each section is made one cubic foot in- 
side. Across the top of each section .there will be 
eight bars or comb bearers. These answer a double 
purpose ; one is to separate the sections, the other is to 
guide your bees in building their comb so it will be 
adapted to raising worker bees only. These are both 
absolutely necessary in successful bee culture. Thick 
heavy comb is only adapted to breeding drone bees. — 
Colonies often raise so many drones by having so much 
drone comb in the hive that they destroy the colony. — 
Drones are only oonsum ers and not gatherers of honey 
You will find by counting the cells in which drone bees 
are bred that there are only sixteen on one inch square, 
while there are twenty-five worker cells on one inch 
square; lienee you will see the great necessity of giving 
your bees a guide to build their'eomb by. 
The Queen carries a little sack in her hinder parts 
that is filled by thedrone. When she puts her hind parts 
in a drone cell, the cell is large and does not fit her 
close, so when she passes the egg it does not touch this 
fecundated sack, therefore it will be a drone, not hav- 
ing touched this fecundated sack. When she puts her 
hind parts in a worker cell, the cell is small and fits her 
close and tight. She cannot pass the egg without its 
touching this sack ; this fecundates the egg and gives it 
its sex. This has been proved by bringing the eggs un- 
der the magnifying glass. The drone egg has always 
been found to be a clear white, while the worker egg 
has shown a little streak that proves it has touched 
this fecundated sack. Queens have been dissected and 
this sack has been found empty in those that have not 
had connection with the drone bee. In others that 
have had connection with the male it has been found 
full, and as my aim is not to explain the nature and 
habits of the honey bee in full, only to give a few hints 
that will waken up an interest on this subject, I 
would advise bee keepers to purchase Langstroth’s 
work on bee-culture, or some other work that has 
treated the subject in full, that you may be posted in 
