. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 220 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Eggs laid in Queen Cells. The following letter is from T. F. Bingham, Abronia, Mich.: "Editor Journal—I send this day 3 queen cells taken from the edges of combs in which there were no other eggs within several cells. They are at tlie bottom of these cells just as queens lay eggs. The hive is two-story and full of bees, and ready to swarm. I intended to send you such cells for several seasons, but I always find them when too busy. Look at the size—drone ceil size—and then think of tlie Wagner tlieory. If people only
. American bee journal. Bee culture; Bees. 220 THE AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL. Eggs laid in Queen Cells. The following letter is from T. F. Bingham, Abronia, Mich.: "Editor Journal—I send this day 3 queen cells taken from the edges of combs in which there were no other eggs within several cells. They are at tlie bottom of these cells just as queens lay eggs. The hive is two-story and full of bees, and ready to swarm. I intended to send you such cells for several seasons, but I always find them when too busy. Look at the size—drone ceil size—and then think of tlie Wagner tlieory. If people only wrote as facts wliat they knew for sure, liow it would cut down 'bad premises.' I could now find a tliousand sucli cells in my apiary, each witli just such an egg and just such a size, and so situated as to leave no doubt what they were made for, and that the queens laid tlie eggs in them in every case, as designed by the ; These queen cells, nicely packed in a box, came duly to hand, and proved to be just what friend Bingham describes. The exact truth cannot be ascertain- ed all at once. We are obliged to learn by degrees—" here a little and there a little.'' Hence theories once pronounc- ed sound by even wise men are proved to be false, and must be discarded— however much we may respect the authors of them. We do not doubt that the eggs were laid in these cells by the queen, their appearance and situation leaving no room for such doubting—though many still cling to the old idea that the queen never lays an egg in a queen- cell; that such are invariably placed there by the workers. It would not be wisdom for us to swallow everything advanced as truth by our worthy and respected predeces- sor—Mr. ^V^agner. In our explorations of the mine of knowledge we often find where " the fathers" were mistaken, just as oiu- children who may delve deeper into that mine, will find where ^ve erred and misapprehended. The use of the word " apiarian &
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