. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 26, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 199 were promising when they were shipped. The fault is not in the breeding. By this I mean that the breeder used all his endeavors to produce good queens, and the queens ap- peared to be all right when they were sent out. Don't say the breeder was careless, or that he don't know how it is done—credit the trouble to the great difficulty in breeding queens of the j-ellow-banded strain. For the benefit of the readers I present a cut (Fig. 1) showing a batch of queen-cells built by a method with which umbilic app
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. March 26, 1903. THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. 199 were promising when they were shipped. The fault is not in the breeding. By this I mean that the breeder used all his endeavors to produce good queens, and the queens ap- peared to be all right when they were sent out. Don't say the breeder was careless, or that he don't know how it is done—credit the trouble to the great difficulty in breeding queens of the j-ellow-banded strain. For the benefit of the readers I present a cut (Fig. 1) showing a batch of queen-cells built by a method with which umbilic appendage—through this attachment the young are nourished. Why is an itmbilical cord necessary in any animal that is supplied with food sufficient to bring it into existence while it is maturing ? When born it is able to feed itself almost the moment it breathes ? The urabilical-cord advocates may be correct in their theory, but to me the whole thing seems very improbable and unreasonable. To-day, March 2, 1903, I received a letter from a bee- Fig. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original [Hamilton, Ill. , etc. , Dadant & Sons]
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