. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. , OLDEST BEE PAPER IN AMERICA ESTABLISH ED^XXfl". DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND TIIE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. VOL. XVII. CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 27, 1881. No. 30. Published every Wedne?day, by The queen is seen to lay 3 or 4 eggs per minute, and the apiarist, by add- ing comb with empty cells, proves that she may lay as many as 4,000 eggs der day. Aristotle was correct, then, in calling the queen the mother, and Virgil wrong in pronouncing her THOMAS G. NEWMAN, ' to be the king Her hatred to rivals is easily shown by the certain com


. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. , OLDEST BEE PAPER IN AMERICA ESTABLISH ED^XXfl". DEVOTED TO SCIENTIFIC BEE-CULTURE AND TIIE PRODUCTION AND SALE OF PURE HONEY. VOL. XVII. CHICAGO, ILL., JULY 27, 1881. No. 30. Published every Wedne?day, by The queen is seen to lay 3 or 4 eggs per minute, and the apiarist, by add- ing comb with empty cells, proves that she may lay as many as 4,000 eggs der day. Aristotle was correct, then, in calling the queen the mother, and Virgil wrong in pronouncing her THOMAS G. NEWMAN, ' to be the king Her hatred to rivals is easily shown by the certain combat, fatal to one of them, when two queens are placed together. This enmity in- duces swarming, as bees rarely suffer x plurality of queens in the same hive. 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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