. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. r. /lasty^. The " Old Reliable " as seen through New and Unreliable Glasses, By E. E. Hastt, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. Mbkting of Queen and Drone— Size of Cells, Etc. I think Dr. Miller is getting a little too near the line of discourtesy in charging me with originality and novelty in what I wrote about the meeting of queen and drone. The Irish Bee Journal has already acquitted me of novelty ; and I plead that originality is not what I'm at. I would be happy to quote the publication, page and date about these matters, but a very poor memo
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. r. /lasty^. The " Old Reliable " as seen through New and Unreliable Glasses, By E. E. Hastt, Sta. B. Rural, Toledo, Ohio. Mbkting of Queen and Drone— Size of Cells, Etc. I think Dr. Miller is getting a little too near the line of discourtesy in charging me with originality and novelty in what I wrote about the meeting of queen and drone. The Irish Bee Journal has already acquitted me of novelty ; and I plead that originality is not what I'm at. I would be happy to quote the publication, page and date about these matters, but a very poor memory forbids me to do so. I have for many years been accustomed to give extra attention to whatever I saw relative to mating, and the whole has "simmered "in my mind. Naturally what seemed to me to be the most illuminative had by far the most pow- erful effect upon me—while another cast of mind might be swift to forget the very things which moved me the most. There is a decided difference between invention and deductions from a lifetime of reading. When I spin theories out of my own wool, isn't it the fact. Doctor, that I am pretty free to say so—as well as pretty free to do so 7 Now as to excess of drones lacking food. So far as honey is concerned, my understanding is that they help themselves to it whenever it is not offered to them iu abundance. So, of course, they are supplied—until the dread time comes when the workers decide to make a general onslaught upon them. But t don't believe honey alone is sufficient to keep a drone in best serving trim - do you ? If any one thinks so, the burden of proof is upon him. The presumption is very strongly the other way. Service calls for nitro- gen, to be supplied by nitrogenous food ; and honey is nearly destitute of nitrogen. Don't believe anybody can be found that will claim that drones eat pollen, or that they could digest it if they did eat it. If not this, then the alternative would seem to be that they are fed ni
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