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form ly pay better for a good tenement than for a poor 
one. They like to work to advantage, and never like 
to be m debt, and if they are, it is not so much their 
fault as that of the keeper, who fails to place them in 
favorable circumstances, in which they can give full 
scope to their natural instincts. Their industry is pro* 
verbial. home are employed during the working sea- 
son as sentinels, some in comb-building, some in gath- 
ering and storing up honey, some in nursing or feeding 
the young, some in pasting over, mason-like, the crev- 
ices and joints of the hive, some in removing from the 
hive offending substances, and others like a kind of 
bodyguard, seem to bestow special attention upon the 
gueen. W hether the principle of the division of labor 
is strictly adhered to by them, or separate classes of 
bees perform constantly the same kind of labor, or 
whether they are employed alternately or promiscu- 
ously in different departments of labor, is a point 
which is not satisfactorily settled by any observations or 
experiments which have hitherto been made. Their 
number varies in different swarms, from twelve to forty 
thousand according to circumstances, the size of the 
hive or the degree of prosperity which they enjoy. They 
are styled neuters, but are really females of dwarfish 
s ! ze - J,j ie ce '' u ? which they are raised determines their 
size, they are imperfectly developed incize, and their 
female organs and propensities are in like manner im- 
perfectly developed, because raised in a contracted cell 
except in some few instances. In consequence of a 
more perfect development than is usual, they have been 
known to lay drone eggs. That they are really females 
and not mongrels is proved by the fact that when a 
queen is lost or removed from the hive in the hatching 
season, a newly aid worker egg is taken from the cell 
in which it has been deposited, and transferred into a 
queeu cell, which is prepared for the purpose, and by a 
peculiar feed, called royal jelly, it becomes a perfectly 
developed queen or mother. 
The drone, like the queen and worker, is appropriate- 
ly named. He is larger, stouter and more bulky than 
