. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 234 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. As to propolis mixing with wax, just take a lot of old comb, divide it into two parts, boil one lot hard, and treat the other carefully, arid see which wax has propolis in it. It is hardl}' fair to cun- dem these things until you try them. Providence, , July 20, 1899. BEES CHOOSING LARV.^i FOR QUEENS. Also a few Last Words about Words. C. C. • T7RIHNI) Ilutch- _--_ ^ inson, — Y o u M^^^\ think 1 will ad- K I mit that anv one .^^ wmp reading my writ- ings might be ex- cused for believ- ing that I thought all queen
. The Bee-keepers' review. Bee culture. 234 THE BEE-KEEPERS' REVIEW. As to propolis mixing with wax, just take a lot of old comb, divide it into two parts, boil one lot hard, and treat the other carefully, arid see which wax has propolis in it. It is hardl}' fair to cun- dem these things until you try them. Providence, , July 20, 1899. BEES CHOOSING LARV.^i FOR QUEENS. Also a few Last Words about Words. C. C. • T7RIHNI) Ilutch- _--_ ^ inson, — Y o u M^^^\ think 1 will ad- K I mit that anv one .^^ wmp reading my writ- ings might be ex- cused for believ- ing that I thought all queens would be good reared in a colony with the queen removed. It is possible, yet I certainly never had any such thought, and I should be ob- liged to have pointed out any expression that would convey that idea. Indeed, I have put myself on record more than once as believing the contrary. Perhaps too much silence on that point, however, may have been misleading. The fact is that it isn't the easiest thing in the world never to leave any chance for misunder- standing. For example, your heading on page 215 might be misunderstood. It reads: "Dr. Miller explains; and admits that .some of the queens will be poor when the bees choose the ; Some might understand that to mean, that I admit that when several colonies are unciueen- ed and left entirely to themselves some of the colonies will have poorer queens than they would have had if nothing had been left in the hive older than just hatched larvie. I certainly do not admit anything of the kind, but believe that when larvce of all ages are present the queen that will be reared Dy that colony if meddled with no more than to remove the queen, will be just as good as if the breeder most carefully selected the larvfe out of the same hive. Your large experience as a queen breed- er has given you chances for observation that I have not had, and I greatly respect, on that account, any expression of opinion of yours in that
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