. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. VOL. XVII. CHICAG-O, ILL., MARCH 23, 1881. No. 12. Has If Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, 974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! WEEKLY—(52 numbers) $ a year, in advance. Three or Six Months at the same rate. SEMI-MONTHLY-The first and third numbers of each month, at $ a year, in advance. MONTHLY—The first number of each month, at 5© cents a year, in advance. %3T Any person sending a Club of six is entitled to
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND THE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. VOL. XVII. CHICAG-O, ILL., MARCH 23, 1881. No. 12. Has If Published every Wednesday, by THOMAS G. NEWMAN, Editor and Proprietor, 974 WEST MADISON ST., CHICAGO, ILL. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION! WEEKLY—(52 numbers) $ a year, in advance. Three or Six Months at the same rate. SEMI-MONTHLY-The first and third numbers of each month, at $ a year, in advance. MONTHLY—The first number of each month, at 5© cents a year, in advance. %3T Any person sending a Club of six is entitled to un extra copy < like the club) which maybe sent to any address desired. Sample copies furnished free. fW~ Remit by money-order, registered letter, ex- press or bank draft on Chicago or New York, payable to our order. Such only are at our risk. Checks on local banks cost us 2S cents for collecting. Free of postage in the United States or Canada. Postage to Europe SO cents extra. Entered at Chicago post office as second class matter. UPM iSs, SBtfe For the American Bee Journal What is the Royal Jelly' C. J. ROBINSON. I propose, by permission, to discuss in the columns of the Bee Journal the hitherto puzzling problem: " What is royal jelly, that substance known to produce the transformation of worker larvae to queens'i"' Profound scientists of Europe and this country have delved into the secrets of the grand problem, but none of them have handed down a satisfactory solution. Yet, it does not seem rational that the question is so ob- struse as to forever remain past finding out what the so-called royal jelly con- sists of; the source from which it is de- rived; its definite action on larvae and whether it is administered by the workers as a nourshing aliment to larvae in royal cells, or for the purpose of im- pregnating the larvae (as pistilliferous flowers are impregnated with pollen) and thus develop a female bee fully qualified to reproduce males. The set- tle
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