. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 830 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 25, 1902. haps, work wonders. After much thought I proceeded as follows: On June 2, 3:05 , I transferred 500 freshly laid eggs from ten of my best queens to cell-cups previously prepared. These .500 cups were given to 100 strong, queenless colo- nies, five to each. On June 16. 4:07 i>.ru., at which hour the pupaskinna castolhca is wont to appear, 1 carefully removed the 500 nymphs (royal) from these cradles and laid them in a row on a downy strip of cotton-batting. Af- ter much scrutiny I selected the fairest
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 830 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Dec. 25, 1902. haps, work wonders. After much thought I proceeded as follows: On June 2, 3:05 , I transferred 500 freshly laid eggs from ten of my best queens to cell-cups previously prepared. These .500 cups were given to 100 strong, queenless colo- nies, five to each. On June 16. 4:07 i>.ru., at which hour the pupaskinna castolhca is wont to appear, 1 carefully removed the 500 nymphs (royal) from these cradles and laid them in a row on a downy strip of cotton-batting. Af- ter much scrutiny I selected the fairest of the 500 and most carefully set her to one side. With a hypodermic syringe I now took the Uvea of the 499 remaining princesses, carefully drawing each out through the pupaskinna castottica (umbilical cord—E. Gallup). With considerable skill I now injected through the pupaskinna castofHca of the selected nymph these Ufes at the rate of 15 per minute until I had injected 299. The remaining 200 were re- served for a most delicate operation. By the aid of the X-rays (yes, I knew all about the X-ray at the time, but refrained from giving my discovery to an incredulous world), I now injected 100 of the remaining lives into each ovary of my princess—destined to be a queen full of years. It required the utmost skill to insert the syringe under the third abdominal ring and into the delicate ovary. Had it not been for the fact that the subject had been given 299 lives through the pupaskinna castotHca I fear that I should have failed here. The royal subject was now put into a cell and given to a nucleus in a glass-hive so I could watch what followed. I tell you true, I watched there 55 hours and 10 minutes. The queen first began to show vitality at the end of the 31st hour, by emitting piping that caused the glass of the hive to shiver. At the close of the 32nd hour she came forth, an ordinary queen except for her exceeding ac- tivity. In less than four hours she showed signs of anx
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