MANAGING BEES. 
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GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. 
The reader might have expected many 
things demonstrated in tills work, which aro 
omitted by design. 
The structure of the worker is too well 
understood by every owner of bees to need a 
particular description. So also of the drone ; 
and the Queen has already been sufficiently 
described to enable any one to select her out 
from among her subjects. If any further 
description is desired, the observer can easily 
satisfy himself by the use of a microscope. 
Every swarm of bees is composed of three 
classes or sorts, to wit : one Queen or female, 
drones or males, and neuters or workers. — 
The Queen is the only female in the hive, 
and lays all the eggs from which all the young 
bees arc raised to replenish their colony. She 
possesses no authority over them, other than 
that of influence, which is derived from the 
fact that she is the mother of all the bees, 
and they, being endowed with instinctive 
knowledge of the fact that they are wholly 
