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AN EASY METHOD OF 
workers only, from any hive that contains 
them; place the same in a drawer in its 
natural position; now insert the drawer into 
the* chamber of the hive, so that the bees can 
have access to them and they will have a 
Queen in a few days. If she finds empty 
cells in the hive, during the breeding season, 
she will deposit eggs there, because it is her 
nature to do so ; and the nature of the work- 
ers prompts them to take care and nurse all 
tire young larva, labor and collect food for 
their sustenance, guard and protect their 
habitations, and do and perform all things 
in due obedience, not to the commands of the 
Queen, but to their own peculiar instinct. 
The drone is probably the male bee, not- 
withstanding the sexual union has never been 
witnessed by any man; yet so many experi- 
ments have been tried, andobservations made, 
that but little doubt can be entertained of it» 
truthl That the sexual intercourse takes 
place high in the air, is highly probable from 
the fact that I have seen an attempt at copu- 
lation by the drone with the Queen on their 
return from an excursion in the air, before 
