. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 June 27, 1907 pression, and yet the eggs are ; Good friend, you must know that there is no real squeezing of the abdomen, either in a worker-cell or a drone-cell. The worL'er- cell is a trifle shallower than the drone-cell. May not that difference in depth cause such a difference in the position of the queen as to produce fertilization in the shallower cells 1 And would not fertilization be expected in a still shallower cell? Did you ever know drone-eggs to be laid in drone-cells only ^5- inch deep? I don't think I ever saw such a
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 566 June 27, 1907 pression, and yet the eggs are ; Good friend, you must know that there is no real squeezing of the abdomen, either in a worker-cell or a drone-cell. The worL'er- cell is a trifle shallower than the drone-cell. May not that difference in depth cause such a difference in the position of the queen as to produce fertilization in the shallower cells 1 And would not fertilization be expected in a still shallower cell? Did you ever know drone-eggs to be laid in drone-cells only ^5- inch deep? I don't think I ever saw such a case; but I may not have observed closely enough. American l^ee Journal One who has watched the queen at work laying eggs can not fail to have noticed that while the egg is being deposited the abdomen is curved to no small degree, and it is easy to believe that this curving is greater in a worker than in a drone-cell, and still greater in a cell only partially built out. It certainly looks like scoring one for the compression t^ ?? ..'?;*. ^WfW^^^^ O)isceflaneo ITecus - Items ^w^ Claim Bees are a Nuisaucc.—F. U. Clum, of Cheviot, N. Y., is one of the many " M. D.'s " thatare interested in bee-keeping. Recently he wrote us as follows: Editor Anerican Bee Journal:—I no- tice in the American Bee Journal of May 23d, that a subscriber living in a small town in Wisconsin complains about a troublesome neighbor who claims that honey-bees are a nuisance. The subscriber wants to know '?What to do with such a man?" The great remedy is education. You notice by the en- closed that we also have troublesome neigh- bors in New York State, and my reply to their complaint. After the complainants be- came convinced of the value and the impor- tance of bees, and that they are just as neces- sary to the farmer, the gardener and the fruit- grower as to the bee-keeper himself, the op- position promptly ceased, and the complain- ants felt heartily ashamed of their previous
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