MANAGING BEES. 
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would have become workers, and by feeding 
them on royal jelly, in a few days they have 
a Queen. The eggs are commonly laid in lit- 
ters, about three times a week, during the 
breeding-season; and the bees, to be more 
suie of succeeding in their experiments, divide 
themselves into squadrons, and undertake to 
make more than one, by taking them from dif- 
ferent litters, and also avoid the confusion of 
having a number of Queens hatch at die same 
time. This fact accounts for hearing more 
dian one Queen at the same time. Two 
Queens cannot exist together long in the same 
hive. Nature lias implanted an implacable 
hatred betwixt them, and as soon as the notes 
ol the first-hatched Queen are heard, they are 
answered by tones of defiance by the nymph 
Queen younger, which is yet in her cell, and 
has not seen the light. ; and if not prevented 
by die workers, her cider sister tears her from 
her cell, and immolates her to her love of un- 
disputed sway. But if the bees should be suf- 
ficiently numerous to protect their Queen of 
their own making, for whom, as the work of 
their own hands, they seem to have a blind 
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